The pathology of drunkenness, or, The physical effects of alcoholic drinks : with drawings of the drunkard's stomach : a letter addressed to Edward C. Delavan / by Thomas Sewall.

  • Sewall, Thomas, 1786 or 1787-1845.
Date:
1841
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Credit: The pathology of drunkenness, or, The physical effects of alcoholic drinks : with drawings of the drunkard's stomach : a letter addressed to Edward C. Delavan / by Thomas Sewall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    mm ■ .. i 'aij»Mg'9Sge98ini»lOW8»»«M«WlWl8«l»i«SI8ei®g«8Sae8g«««.-i»- ■ ■•»«-. CORRESPONDENCE, &c. Ballston Centre, Sept. 10, 1842. To the Hon. Samuel Young, Secretary of State, and Superintendent of Common Schools: Dear Sir—1 am making an effort to place a bound volume of Dr. Sewall's work on th.til Pathology of Drunkenness,-with drawings of the human stomach as affected by the use of alcoholic drinks, in every school district library in the State. You are aware that the plan was submitted to the committee on educa- tion last winter and unanimously approved. It is also my intention to furnish a complete set of the colossal drawings, framed, to as many of our literary institutions as 1 can find means to supply. As superintendent of common schools, I should be pleased to receive your approbation of the measure, and to learn whether your department could assist me in the distribution of the bound volume. I am dear sir, Yours with great respect, EDWARD C. DELAVAN. SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE, ) Department of Common Schools, > Albany, 12th September, 1842. > Dear Sir—I am informed by yours of the 10th inst., that you are making an effort to place a bound volume of Dr. Sewall's work on the Pathology of Drunk- enness, together with the plates, in every school district library in the State. I am satisfied that the colored plates of Dr. Sewall, exactly depicting the transi- tions of the human stomach from perfect health to the last stages of cancerous, alcoholic disease, will make a deeper and more lasting impression upon the minds of reflecting individuals, and even upon the thoughtless and ignorant, than any other work that has ever been published. I wish the admirable lecture of Dr. Nott, contained in the Enquirer, could be added to the work of Dr. Sewall. The teachers of youth would then be able, by a display and explanation of the plates, and by reading the two lectures to their pupils, to communicate an admonition to the six hundred thousand children of this State, against the deadly poison of inebriation, which would never be forgotten. Whatever can be done to make the rising generation more wise, more health- ful ,and consequently more happy than their predecessors, is worthy of all commen- dation. You have my best wishes for the success of your effort; and I will willingly aid in the distribution, to the extent of my ability. Very respectfully, yours, &c. S. YOUNG, E. C. Delavan, Esq. Sup't of Common Schools. The following letter is from the Editor of the New-York District School Jonrnal, the official organ of the State: Office of the District School Journal, ) Albany, Sept. 23, 1842. $ Dear Sir—As an aid to moral and physical education, I wish the admirable illustrations of the progress of Intemperance by Dr. Sewall, might hang in each of the eleven thousand school houses in our State. No more effectual appeal can be made to the mind, no more fearful warning can be given to the appetite, than these delineations of the ravage of that fatal poison, which so long has mingled death in the cup of pleasure. Impressions thus silently and certainly made on the mind of children, cannot readily be effaced; and though the picture speak not, its power will be felt, when other monitions are forgotten. If in any way I can aid you in diffusing these means of good, believe me, it will give much pleasure to Yours very respectfully, E. C. Delavan, Esq FRANCIS DWItiHT. TO TEACHERS. I am anxious to place a copy of this volume in each School District Library in the State of New-York. The plan has been fully approved by the Hon. Samuel Young, State Superintendent of Common Schools. May I request you to see to the preservation of the work, and as often as thought best, to exhibit the Plates and read Dr Sewall's description of them to the scholars. It might be well also to permit the children to take the volume home, so that each individual in the dis- trict might also profit by it. This distribution will be an expensive one. The price of the volume (75 cents,) is a small sum for each district; perhaps the children might think the work of such value, as to feel willing to pay for it; if so, such collection would enable me to send it to other Districts in our country, where otherwise it might never reach. No clai.n is made, but 1 take the liberty of adding the suggestion. Should Districts uuitc in making collections to pay for the volume, remittances can be made to Oliver Scovil, Agent, Albany, Post paid. EDWARD C. DELAVAN. \M MA- 'S StS p a-1 SMaassaMasMMwaMwmMwamgs**- • •••••••■ •.••••..;-.. r. ™ti.*t&,*%&&»mi&tMm®ss%'?ii s5wf 1 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE Bethesda, Maryland