34. THOMAS SEWALL-Born April 16, 1786, Augusta, Me. M. D., 1812, Harvard. Incorporator of the Society under the second charter. Died April 10, 1845. Son of Thomas and Priscilla (Cony) Sewall. Removed to Washington about 1820. Was appointed Prof. Anatomy, Med. Dept. Columbian College, 1821; served till 1839, when he was transferred to the Chair of Practice, in which he continued till his death. One of the founders of Columbian College in 1821 ; Consulting Physician, Central Cholera Hospital, 1832 ; one of the founders of Washington Infirmary, 1844 ; one of the founders of Med. Assn., D. C.; member National Institute, Washington Med. Society ; President of Patholog. Society, 1843 ; member Board of Health, 1819. One of the first opponents of phrenology, against which he wrote “The errors of phrenology exposed.” He also wrote, shortly after Beaumont's work on digestion, “The Enquirer ; pathology of drunkenness," 1841, which was translated into German, and was “possibly the first monograph on the post mortem appearance of the gastric mucosa in alcoholics." Married, Nov. 28, 1813, Mary Choate, sister of Rufus Choate. See Appleton's Biog., 1889, V, p. 469; Minutes Med. Society, April, 1, 1845 ; Med. Examiner, Philadelphia, 1845, I, p
