Why Is Medicine So Important In The 1600's

Medicine became important in the early 1600’s. In the beginning of the 17th century, they divided it into three groups: physicians, the surgeons, and the apothecaries.
Physicians usually held a university degree. Surgeons are hospital trained and apprenticeships, they served dual role of barber-surgeon. Apothecaries also learned (prescribing, making and selling medicines) through apprentice ships, sometimes in hospitals. In the 1766, was first organization of the medical professionals. It was developed to embrace the highest concern to the profession. By 1760 professionals began regulating medical practice by examining and licensing practitioners. By 1800s medical fields were in charge of establishing regulations, the next step was to develop their own training programs for doctors. The programs were called “proprietary” medical colleges. The first of these programs was the Medical College of the medical society of the county of New York, founded march 12, 1807. These programs made a lot of students attracted to the medical field. Between 1802 and 1876 62 schools were established by 1810, 650 students enrolled 100 graduated from the medical schools in the united states. By 1900 the numbers went up by 25,000 students and 5,200 that graduated.

For example every 2 pills by mouth the medical professionals would do the calculations for 30 day’s so let’s see 30 * 2 would be 60