| Item Details | |
| Entry Number | 3778 |
| Author | ATWATER, EDWARD C. |
| Title | The Medical Profession in a New Society, Rochester, New York (1811-60). |
| Publication | Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 47 (1973), 221-35. |
| Subject(s) | : 19th CENTURY MEDICINE |
| Notes | (Sees the professional standards and status of physicians declining to the middle of the century, despite progress in scientific knowledge and increase in number of physicians; attributes this phenomenon to failure of medicine to keep up with pace of industrial and urban expansion. An important article, one of Atwater's best.) |
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