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 "A College of Physicians." / [John Collins Warren].

Boston : Printed by John Eliot, Jun. ..., 1812.

20 pages ; (8vo)

In an autobiographic note J. C. Warren claims authorship of this pamphlet. He addressed it to Joseph Story and distributed it "to every member of the whole government, beside pushing it into every part of the community" Cf. Edward Warren. Life of John Collins Warren, 1860, v. 1, p. 105

Letter is dated Jan. 1, 1812. Postscript (p. 20) is dated Jan. 13, 1812. In Feb. 1812 Warren published A reply to a pamphlet purporting to be An answer to A letter addressed to a Republican member of the House of Representatives

The petition was for a corporation "by the name and title of a Massachusetts College of Physicians" Cf. W. L. Burrage. A history of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1923, p. 77-78

"Notes": p. 17-20

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