1. Thomas Sewall, A Lecture Delivered at the Opening of the Medical Department of the Columbian College … (Washington, 1825; Shoemaker description begins Richard H. Shoemaker, comp., A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820–1829 (11 vols.; New York, 1964–72). description ends 22252).

2. Thomas Sewall (1786–1845), born in Hallowell, District of Maine, graduated from the medical school of Harvard College in 1812 and practiced in Essex County, Massachusetts. In 1819 he was convicted of, and fined $800 for, being in possession of corpses, which he was using to teach surgery. He subsequently moved to Washington, where he became professor of anatomy and physiology at Columbia College and had an extensive practice. Sewall was a strong advocate of temperance and created a series of widely distributed full-color plates “which showed the effects of ardent spirits upon the human stomach” (Henry Sewall Webster, Thomas Sewall: Some of His Ancestors and All of His Descendants; A Genealogy [Gardiner, Maine, 1904], 6, 15; Suzanne M. Shultz, Body Snatching: The Robbing of Graves for the Education of Physicians in Early Nineteenth Century America [Jefferson, N.C., 1992], 51–52; Baltimore Sun, 21 Aug. 1841).