Terrible tractoration!! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution : in four cantos : most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians / by Christopher Caustic, M.D. [pseud.].

  • Fessenden, Thomas Green, 1771-1837.
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1804
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Terrible tractoration!! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution : in four cantos : most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians / by Christopher Caustic, M.D. [pseud.]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Half title : Poetical petition

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New-York : Printed for Samuel Stansbury ..., 1804.

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xxxv, 1 unnumbered page, 192 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm

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First American, from the second London edition, revised and corrected by the author, with additional notes.

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Half title: A poetical petition, &c
The author's name is revealed in the publisher's preface, p. [v]
"Printed by Southwick and Hardcastle ..."-- Verso of half title
"Errata" (followed by two additional extracts from reviews): p. [xxxvi]
Engraved plates signed: "A.O. Sansbury del., A. Anderson, sc."
"Additional notes to this American edition": p. [187]-192
First published in London in 1803 under title: A poetical petition against tractorising trumpery. Published in Philadelphia in 1806 under title: The modern philosopher; or Terrible tractoration
Film 633 reel 43 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 43, no. 769).

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 769
Shaw & Shoemaker 6297

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1958. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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