Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850 by Laurence Brockliss, Marcus Ackroyd, Michael S. Moss

Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850

Laurence Brockliss, Marcus Ackroyd, Michael S. Moss

408 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

informative medium-paced

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Providing a statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the industrial revolution, this prosopographical study, of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, charts their backgr...

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