Mid-century in Seattle

Mortality in mid nineteenth century Britain

RICHARD CAVENDISH, The powers of evil in western religion, magic and folk belief, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 8vo, pp. ix, 299, £5.95. Evil supernatural agencies are part of every culture in degrees varying with their sophistication. As is to be expected, primitive man is surrounded by them, but they are of course still believed in by races who boast advanced social and cultural devel...

The providers of medical treatment in mid-nineteenth-century Bristol.

MEDICAL PRACTICE in Bristol during the nineteenth century has been discussed from several points of view. These are histories of the hospitals and of the practitioners closely connected with them, and brief descriptions of the local dispensaries,1 while a detailed account ofpauper medical relief in Bristol has been given by Hodgkinson who quotes figures for the numbers receiving this relief in ...

Defining the Medical Profession in Mid-Nineteenth Century Bristol

The movement for reform of medical practice which occupied the middle decades of the nineteenth century culminated in the Medical Registration Act of 1858. Its provisions were a disappointment to many reformers because, among other things, it did not allow automatic prosecution of unqualified practitioners. They could only be penalised if they assumed a medical title or passed themselves off as...

Love and courtship in mid-twentieth-century England

Paupers and the infirmary in mid-eighteenth-century Shrewsbury.

or injured paupers has often been noted. Yet in the mid-eighteenth century, provincial hospitals emerged as an option to complement the efforts of parish officers in some places. Mary Fissell's work on the Bristol Infirmary has established the similarity of circumstances which pushed people on to poor relief or into an infirmary, but it has not yet been determined whether there was a substantia...