Family Practice Vol. 17, No. 3, 278-279
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The evolution of British general practice 18501948.
Past President of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Professor Digby traces the history of the evolution of general practice, starting from 1850, shortly before the Medical Act of 1856 defined for the first time standards for the education of medical practitioners (as opposed to those who practised what we now call alternative medicine). Her review ends with the introduction of the National
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