Remonstrance of the Massachusetts Medical Society, on the petition for the establishment of a College of Physicians: together with said petition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massachusetts Medical Society.

Contributor:

Massachusetts. General Court.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 23347.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Massachusetts Medical Society.

Massachusetts College of Physicians.

Massachusetts. General Court.

Massachusetts.

Medicine--Massachusetts--Societies, etc.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

12 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed by Thomas B. Wait and Co., 1811.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Petition to the Massachusetts General Court to incorporate a medical association "by the name and title of the Massachusetts College of Physicians," p. [3]-4, signed by Thomas Williams [and eleven others].

Remonstrance of the Massachusetts Medical Society to the General Court requesting that the petition not be granted, p. [5]-8. Signed on p. 11 "In behalf of the Society. John Warren, president." Pages 9-10 include the names of the fellows of the Massachusetts Medical Society present at the annual meeting on June 5, 1811, when the memorial was "read, accepted (with one dissenting voice) and ordered to be presented."

"Boston, October 17th, 1811. At a stated meeting of ... the Massachusetts Medical Society ... the committee appointed to present to the General Court the remonstrance of the Society against the petition for a College of Physicians, be empowered to print the said remonstrance, and also the petition ... and a copy transmitted to each of the fellows of the Society. Attest. Thos. Welsh, corresponding sec'ry."--p. [2].

The General Court did not grant a license to the promotors of the proposed organization. Cf. Packard, Francis R. History of medicine in the United States, 1931, v. 2, p. 444.

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