Medical doctor specialising as a generalist, usually working in primary care setting

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Michel Schuppach in his pharmacy examining a young woman's urine who is seated opposite him awaiting the result. Line engraving by B. Hübner, 1775, after G. Locher, 1774.

FACTS : training and education / FACTS Health Co-ordination Centre.

A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.

An American physician of the late nineteenth century, with his doctor's bag and horse and buggy; advertising the medicine "Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery". Colour lithograph by E.C. Pease, 1910.

Portrait of William Henry Ackland (circa. 1825 - 1898), general practitioner of Bideford

Matthew Manna, a country apothecary outside his shop. Etching by M. Darly, 1773, after R.St. G. Mansergh.

A man on a bicycle with a physician riding pillion; advertising the film "When father fetched the doctor". Colour lithograph, 191-.

An aged rustic telling a clergyman that he is calling the physician to attend his wife only on the fortieth anniversary of her previous use of a physician. Drawing by B. Thomas, 1921.

A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.

Modern musketeers : for your constant protection : your doctor ... your dentist ... your druggist ... / Abbott Laboratories.

Farewell Doctor Finlay. 1/2.

Miscellany: French language material, 19th-20th centuries

Professional ethics and primary care medicine : beyond dilemmas and decorum / Harmon L. Smith and Larry R. Churchill.

A few remarks on the practice of medicine / By a general practitioner [W. J. Wattsford].

Practical remarks on the measures proposed for reform in the medical profession / by a general practitioner, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

Observations on the projected bill for restricting the practice of surgery and midwifery to members of the Royal Colleges of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; with some modifications proposed ... / By a general practitioner.

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General Practitioners

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Images about General Practitioners

Works from the collections

A few remarks on the practice of medicine / By a general practitioner [W. J. Wattsford].

Practical remarks on the measures proposed for reform in the medical profession / by a general practitioner, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

Observations on the projected bill for restricting the practice of surgery and midwifery to members of the Royal Colleges of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; with some modifications proposed ... / By a general practitioner.

General Practitioners

Images from the collections

Images about General Practitioners

Works from the collections

A few remarks on the practice of medicine / By a general practitioner [W. J. Wattsford].

Practical remarks on the measures proposed for reform in the medical profession / by a general practitioner, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

Observations on the projected bill for restricting the practice of surgery and midwifery to members of the Royal Colleges of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; with some modifications proposed ... / By a general practitioner.

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