Machine derived contents note: PART I: The Predecessors of the General Practitioners .750-1810 -- 1. Practitioners, Regular and Irregular -- 2. Background and Education -- 3. Physic and Pharmacy -- 4. Surgery and Obstetrics -- 5. The Eighteenth-Century Practitioner: His Income and Practice -- PART II: Medical Reform and the Creation of the General Practitioner 1794-1850 -- 6. The Rise of the Druggist and Medical Reform -- 7. The Association of Apothecaries and Surgeon-Apothecaries and the Apothecaries Act of 1815 -- 8. The Consequences of the Apothecaries Act -- 9. The Status of the General Practitioner -- 10. The Number of Medical Practitioners, Their Qualifications and Appointments -- 11. Practice and Income: The Poor Law Medical Services -- 12. Practice and Income: Private Practice and Other Sources; Total Income -- 13. The General Practitioner as Family Doctor; Medical Societies and Associations -- 14. Postscript: The Medical Act of 1858
