An answer to A letter addressed to a Republican member of the House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts : on the subject of a petition for a new incorporation, to be entitled the College of Physicians.

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1812
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An answer to A letter addressed to a Republican member of the House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts : on the subject of a petition for a new incorporation, to be entitled the College of Physicians. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Boston] : True & Rowe, printers, 1812.

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16 pages ; 23 cm

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 48
Shaw & Shoemaker 24619

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An answer, dated Jan. 20, 1812, to J. C. Warren's A letter addressed to a Republican member of the House of Representatives (Boston, 1812) Warren's subsequent Reply to a pamphlet purporting to be An answer (Boston, 1812) is addressed "to the three principal advocates of the petition for a College of Physicians, authors of the said Answer" (p. [3]) Benjamin Waterhouse was probably the main author. Waterhouse's support for a Massachusetts College of Physicians, as well as his previously published writings against Dr. John Warren and J. C. Warren, led to his dismissal from the faculty of Harvard Medical School. Cf. T. F. Harrington. The Harvard Medical School, 1905, p. 379-390
Film 633 reel 2 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 2, no. 48).

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