Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
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The President introduced his remarks by a short survey of the social and economic conditions in Bristol in the middle of the eighteenth century, with acknowledgments to Latimer's Annals of Bristol in the eighteenth century, Munro Smith's History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and other sources. He quoted from English Social History: " Good doctoring rather than better social conditions was the cause of the great increase in population which took place and continued:
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Paupers and the infirmary in mid-eighteenth-century Shrewsbury.
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