A copy of the petition of Doctors Hyde and Fitch to the General Assembly of the state of Vermont: praying for a medical lottery.
Subtitle: Unto which are annexed, the recommendations of sundry gentlemen; and Doctor Duncan's reasons why the prayer of said petition ought to be granted. ..
Contributors: Fitch, Russel.; Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.; Duncan, Abel.; Vermont. General Assembly.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 37255.
Publisher: Printed [by Benjamin Smead?]
Published: 1800
Place of publication: [Brattleboro Vt.?]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Stearns, Samuel, -- 1741-1809.; Lotteries -- Vermont.; Medical literature.; Publishers and publishing -- Vermont.; Medical publishing -- Vermont.
Notes: "Object of the lottery was to raise funds in order to publish a work by Dr. Samuel Stearns. J.C.L. Clark thinks Stearns may have written the appeal himself. He did submit a petition to the General Assembly, Oct. 18, 1798, for the same purpose. Dr. Hyde was from Guilford."--McCorison. Apparently the works were never published.

Imprint suggested by McCorison.

Evans 37255.

McCorison, M.A.  Vermont, 570.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37255)