Herbalists and medical botanists in mid-nineteenth-century Britain with special reference to Bristol
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Herbalists and medical botanists in mid-nineteenth-century Britain with special reference to Bristol.
A SURVEY of the providers of medical treatment in mid-nineteenth-century Bristol, based mainly on data from the 1851 census, showed the herbalists and their allies as a small but definable group.' They tended to live in the poorest parts of the city and in this, as well as in many other characteristics, they were situated at the opposite social pole to the opulent physicians. Their patients mus...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/s002572730004182x