Medical education and practice in Britain 150 years ago: a verbatim testimony.
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On 11 February 1834 the House of Commons ordered that a select committee be appointed to inquire into and consider the laws, regulations, and usages regarding the education and practice of the various branches of the medical profession in the United Kingdom, and on 13 August it ordered the committee's report to be printed. This appeared in three volumes totalling over 800 pages and comprised more than 8000 questions and answers with over 170 pages of appendices. ' The medical profession was formally divided into three orders at that time-namely, physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries-the corresponding professional corporations being the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Surgeons, and the Society of Apothecaries.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- British medical journal
دوره 290 6467 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1985