RT Journal
A1 Crothers TD
T1 THe turner memorial fund
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD September 4
VO LIII
IS 10
SP 808
OP 809
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02550100054009
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550100054009
AB To the Editor: 
    —The late Dr. J. Edward Turner, the founder and projector of the first inebriate asylum in the world, built at Binghamton, N. Y., died in indigent circumstances and was buried at Wilton, Conn. No stone or monument marks his burial-place.Dr. Turner was the first man to point out the practical possibilities from the medical study and treatment of inebriates in an institution, and to indicate that the great alcoholic problem must be solved by a scientific study of the inebriate and the nature and influence of alcohol. His views were severely ridiculed; and he was persecuted as a crank, but this only increased his ardor, energy and self-sacrifice. He was a century ahead of his day and generation, and his writings and books indicate a knowledge of the subject which even now is just beginning to dawn on the minds of the most advanced students.Now