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Not really, though.

So, not really about Doctorship, more about coming into town. Should I start out established, or look for a place to buy/rent? If so, who should I talk to? Should I work out of home, or did they have offices often back then?

If you can answer any of these questions, or help me, drop by and say so, it's appreciated.

-Tanner J. E.

Should I start out established, or look for a place to buy/rent?
Whichever you prefer. :)

If so, who should I talk to?
Well, the if so refers to both of the previous ones, so...

If you were established, I have a charry that's gonna develop diabetes, you could have him as a patient. :) Yay for old-fashioned diabetes-tests! Lovely being a doctor, isn't it? I also have quite a few chars that I'd be willing to have be acquainted with him already, in not necessarily doctorly capacities.

If you were not established and looking for a place to buy/rent, there's only one place I recommend: The Townsend Boarding-house! Lots of people live there and it'd be within his class. :)

Should I work out of home, or did they have offices often back then?
Unless they worked at a hospital, it was more like they went around to people's homes. :) The rich blokes, anyway, which are the ones that matter, status-wise. Depends on your client lists. If you're a poor doc, you'd maybe go out to see the poor blokes anyway, but a promising young (unmarried) doc from Edinburgh is prolly going to have upper-class clients and go visit them, while any poor blokes he treats are brought in to him by family/friends.

I suppose for the sake of relations and patients, we'll say established.

Now that brings to question, if not the Townsend Boarding-house, where else would someone of his status, youth, and occupation rent or own a. . .I suppose unit? I don't think he's one to enjoy living near very many other people, though he will if he must.

Right, can't think of much else.

Oh, wait, now I have to go research how they treated diabetes back then. Or, how they diagnosed it.

Both!

Tasted the piss! That's how they diagnosed if someone had it or not! Fantastic, eh?

South Lindebo's prolly the best bet for him to find his quarters and a small office, yep. :)

Oh, well that's nice.

Now that's just -wrong!- Eugh!

So. . .South Lindebo, let me go look.

Okay, so I'm thinking Eastcheap of Cheapside. Not only would he like to be part of the more upper-middle-class neighborhood, but it's an investment, as well. A Doctor based in a nice neighborhood is more likely to be visited.

So, do I need to fill out a loan application or something?

:D

Really, though, it'd be nice to know how it looks. This is England, of course, so the traditional view of thin, brick streets, cramped, thin, high, jutting buildings, and so forth. Methinks wood houses, unless they're of the smarter persuasion and opted for brick in order to help with the dangerous fire issues a town can have when packed so tightly together. . .

How's my mark?

So I've been googling, and it seems nothing similar to, "health care in the late 1800's" is very helpful.

Linkys? I think I'm about to go check the historical references in the starter pack.

Buchan's Domestic Medicine -A bit out of date for this period, but not by all THAT much.

Weird Tortury-looking Things -You can construe a lot from this site.

Spermatorrhoea Ring. I may be sick.

Thanks, these are great.

If. . .sickening.

Isn't the progress of medicine fascinating? :D

For sickening, read Malleus Maleficarum. And also look up what kinds of things they used for torturing. Headcrushers and Breast Rippers speak for themselves, but check out Pears and the Heretic's Fork and suchlike sometime. :)

A dark day in human history when mere corkscrews are terribly unimaginative.