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Previous Volume 328:820 March 18, 1993 Number 11

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By Patricia Ann Watson. 187 pp. Knoxville, Tenn., University of Tennessee Press, 1991. $29.95. ISBN 0-87049-696-4.

In colonial New England, formally trained physicians were few and congregated in urban areas. Harvard College, founded in 1636, was of no help in remedying this dearth of practitioners, since it concentrated on turning out classical scholars whose main occupation was to be teaching or the ministry. Only in the years surrounding the American Revolution were fledgling medical schools established at Dartmouth, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania. Until then, the colonists of New England relied on foreign-trained physicians who could be attracted to the New World or on practitioners whose knowledge was of a less formal sort.

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