Bloor D U
J R Coll Gen Pract. 1978 May;28(190):288-91.
It was the Apothecaries Act of 1815 which led to the emergence of general practice as we know it today and it was this one Act which produced a flood of changes on the medical scene that are without parallel in our history. Students were soon to undergo new forms of training in new medical schools and hospitals, and many medical associations and journals were founded. The term ;general practitioner' was soon in use. The driving force behind all these changes was the Society of Apothecaries and the new general practitioners, and all too often they were opposed by the two Royal Colleges. It was only at the beginning of the twentieth century that these new practitioners were allowed to call themselves ;doctors'.
1815年的《药剂师法案》促成了我们如今所知的全科医学的出现，正是这一项法案给医学领域带来了一系列变革，这在我们的历史上是无与伦比的。学生们很快就要在新的医学院和医院接受新形式的培训，许多医学协会和期刊也纷纷成立。“全科医生”这个术语很快就开始使用了。所有这些变革背后的推动力量是药剂师协会和新的全科医生，而他们常常遭到两个皇家医学院的反对。直到20世纪初，这些新的从业者才被允许称自己为“医生”。
