Notes for John Sappington, Dr.

Notes for John Sappington, Dr.

!From Web site: http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/emelis12/d3054.htm#P3054
He died on 1 Sep 1856 or 7 Sep 1856 in Arrow Rock, Saline Co., Missouri, USA. Quote about alcohol: "Philanthropy and wisdom could cure alcoholism":
"We are well aware of the fact that many unfortunate individuals have an ungovernable propensity for its [alcohol’s] use. This state of things we can readily trace to two sets of prime causes; the one, the organization of the brain; and the other, the circumstance of education: both of which could be easily remedied by the united efforts of philanthropy and wisdom."
Dr. John Sappington, 1844

First doctor in Nashville, Tennessee.
Introduced quinine for treatment of malarial fever.
Author of Sappington's Fever Book.