Officiers de santé: the second-class doctors of nineteenth-century France
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Officiers de santé: the second-class doctors of nineteenth-century France.
In the last decade of the eighteenth century medical education and medical practice in France were in a parlous state. The Revolution had left the whole edifice of the art of healing in ruins. The Constitution of 3 September 1791 had laid down the principle of a complete re-organization of public education to take account of the changed conditions of French society.1 In 1792, however, after the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300031732