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Origins of Medicine and Pharmacy at the Cape of Good Hope


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Abstract

In its formative days the Cape was dependent upon 'ignorant and unskilled' barbers for medical attention. Efforts by the Government to regularise the profession met with little success; physicians and surgeons kept pharmacies and 'pharmacists' visited patients in their homes. Medical chaos ruled for many years.

S. Afr. Med. J., 48, 1128 (1974).

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