A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London : volume two / Sir George Clark
1966, 1st edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Scattered foxing. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #413396
Physical description; xviii, [426]-800 pages, [11] pages of plates illustrations, portraits 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; The origins of the dispensary 1675-96After the revolution, 1689-95The dissensions in the college down to Rose's case 1695-1704The dispensaryThe last contests with the apothecaries and surgeons [and] midwifery 1704-60The college ceases to coerce pretenders 1704-35The college in the early eighteenth centuryThe eighteenth-century college and professional problemsThe licentiates 1752-91New functions for the collegeThe healing arts during the industrial revolutionThe prelude to medical reform 1784-1811 The first step in medical reform 1805-15 Pall Mall East 1825-30The college in a changing world 1830-40 Medical politics 1840-50 The coming of the Medical Act 1850-50Appendixes include list of presidents, college numbers, 1834 statutes and extract from Lady Sadleir's will. Subjects; 17th Century. 18th Century. 19th Century. Professional Associations. Academies and Learned Societies, Medical. Apothecaries. Licentiates. Medical Reform.
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