REPORT OF THE EVIDENCE IN THE CASE OF JOHN STEPHEN BARTLETT, M.D. VERSUS THE MASS. MEDICAL SOCIETY, as Given before a Committee of the Legislature, at the Session of 1839
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1839. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Item #7770
Octavo. 55, [1] pp. Originally issued, stitched into self wrappers. This copy with original stitching perished, now newly resewn. Chipping to the margins, dust soiling; scattered pencil notations on the title page.
The cataloguer at the American Antiquarian Society tells us that this tit for tat law suite concerns "the power of the Massachusetts Medical Society to control the practice of medicine in the state. John Stephen Bartlett had been expelled from the Society for "consulting with irregular practitioners, and aiding and abetting quacks," namely, Patrick Kearney, an Irish Catholic physician, and John Williams, an oculist who had practiced in France. He had therefore petitioned the legislature to declare the charter of the Massachusetts Medical Society void" (AAS #240265). American Imprints 54294.
Price: $200.00