Health and Medicine

The Rise of the Hospital Based Treatment?

• Pharmacy and Drug Shops
  • Boots 1849
  • Local pharmacists in towns.

a) Development of Hospitals and Hospital-based practicioners

• 1801-50: More university educated men entered the medical profession in Britain than ever before.
• 1800-60: Over 70 special hospitals dedicated to fever, children, and cancer.
• The amount of patients hosptials cared for went up dramatically.
• There were expanded opportunities for the training of doctors professionally. People were qualified and worked in public institutions, heirarchires arose headed by consultants.
• Anatomy Act 1832:
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