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Medical practice and medical education 1500−2001: an overview
Author(s) -
Magee Reginald
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
anz journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.426
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 1445-1433
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2004.02960.x
Subject(s) - apothecaries' system , medicine , variety (cybernetics) , subject (documents) , medical education , medical practice , alternative medicine , pathology , library science , artificial intelligence , computer science , physics , thermodynamics
Up to the middle of the nineteenth century medicine was practised by a variety of people: physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, bone setters and various irregular practitioners or quacks. Physicians were well educated and learned men who had studied the classics and the works of Galen. The surgeons attended lectures and demonstrations in anatomy. In reality, medical knowledge regarding disease and its management was minimal. The present paper is an overview of the education and training of those who practised in medicine before the subject began to develop into a science.