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There were 3,500 medical practitioners in the colonies when the Revolution began, of whom fewer than 200 held degrees from medical schools. One writer noted that "with a few, honorable exceptions in each city, the practitioners were ignorant, degraded and contemptible." Quacks abounded. In the North, ministers and magistrates...
There was no doubt from the beginning of Rockefeller's career in 1958 as to his final goal. As he himself put it before the '64 campaign, "I'm a politician. That is my profession. Success in politics, real success, means only one thing in America." The prevalent wisdom in...
IN THE SPRING of 1972 I spent a day with Sen. Walter Mondale (D.-Minn.) in Washington, D.C., as one of two delegates from Minnesota to the United States Senate Youth Program. Sponsored by the Hearst Foundation, the program was established in the hope that first-hand exposure to the...
Even the ministry, perhaps the most steadfastly male profession in the Colonies, has felt the impact of women. In most denominations, women's place is still in the pew rather than the pulpit, but there are a few notable exceptions. The most remarkable is Mother Ann Lee. "Ann the...
As long as the war continues to aggravate an already acute labor shortage, women will undoubtedly work in an increasingly broad range of occupations, but there are signs that this trend may eventually be reversed. The growing demand for closer regulation of the medical profession, particularly the new emphasis upon...