Resident hospital apothecaries in Georgian Bristol / Michael Whitfield.

"For the first 120 years of Bristol's hospitals, an Apothecary was their only full-time medical practitioner. Although Apothecary rated low in the medical hierarchy, many went on to become MD or to run very lucrative private practices. This is about the the work they did, the men who did it and the apprenticeship that led to it."--From back cover.