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61 - Etymologies

Bedside Rounds

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Making Rounds in Medicine

By the middle of the nineteenth century, rounds as a noun and make rounds as a verb was being used in the same sense that we use it to day. I wanted to see just how far back the phrase making rounds went, so i pulled some older examples. So in 18 21, we have one doctor walker. The epitaph estimates he vaccinated a hundred thousand people in his lifetime. Even earlier, i found a letter from a british student in france complaining about how crowded medical education was. In montpelle, there is always such a crowd of students about the physician and surgeon that there is nothing to be seen or heard. And the students wrote a letter to complain

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