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1825 Lecture on Opening of Medical Department at Columbian College (GWU)
1825 Lecture on Opening of Medical Department at Columbian College (GWU)
1825 Lecture on Opening of Medical Department at Columbian College (GWU)

1825 Lecture on Opening of Medical Department at Columbian College (GWU)

$ 10.56

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Condition: Removed but intact. Clean pages. Over all in very good condition. First Edition.
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  • Year: 1825
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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  • Original/Reproduction: Original

    Description

    Pamphlet Description: Thomas Sewall, M.D,
    A Lecture Delivered at the Opening of the Medical Department of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia.
    Washington: Printed at the Columbian Office, 1825, 80 pages. Removed but intact. Clean pages. Over all in very good condition.  First Edition. A second, shorter edition was published the following year. Sewall was Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Columbian, which was later to become George Washington University. He was famous for his work on the effects of alcohol, and later was to become a major force in the temperance movement.
    As a physician, Sewall produced important work on the effects of alcohol and was a major force in the temperance movement. Columbian College subsequently became George Washington University.