There is a little book, available from the Society of Genealogists in London, they have a website , book shop and you can buy on-line - costs about £5 I reckon called: Records of the Medical Professions, A Practical Guide, Bourne and Chicken, 1994 There is an enormous book - I have seen it in the Soc Gen Library, but never used it, called: Wallis PJ & RV, Eighteenth Century Medics, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2nd edition 1988, £80. Which should have anybody practising then The problem, which bothered me about Jamaican doctors, was the period 1800-1850. After about then there was an annual Medical Register in the UK. For the 1800-1850 period there are list sof qualified people in the Royal College of Physicians, you have to go to the RCP and go through the lists, the Royal College of Surgeons, you have to write to them, they will not let you in but they proved very helpful to me, and the Apothecaries Hall, all the lists are in the Guildhall Library in the City of London. Then there are the University graduates, Oxford & Cambridge and the Scottish four. Ox-bridge is published. But get the Bourne and Chicken book, you may have quite a job in front of you. Edward Crawford ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garcia-Sibley" <wintergully@direct.ca> To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 1:38 AM Subject: Re PRO wills for doctors > Thanks to those who recently gave us this address at the PRO: > > http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/ > > I entered "Jamaica" in the Advanced Search section and deleted all > categories except "wills" and "text". > > First, I was struck by how many unfamiliar names there were, and assume that > many were UK ex-patriots or seamen who worked on ships travelling to > Jamaica. > > Second, I noticed an extraordinary number of "Practitioners in Physic (sic) > and Surgery". I would welcome any thoughts from Listers on the following: > Would these have been doctors mostly from the UK working in the Island? > Does anyone know the most likely cities/country where West Indians would > have gone for medical training between 1800 and 1850? I wonder if the > training then would have taken place as it does now, first at a university > and then at a hospital. > > I ask because my g-g-g-grandfather, who was born in Jamaica and who also > died there, practised medicine in Kingston. His son is also described as a > medical doctor, yet we can find absolutely no record of where they trained. > > Thanks, > Joan Garcia > -- > > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > For information on individual islands, research aids, island bulletin boards or history please visit the CaribbeanGenWeb project at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/ > > > ______________________________________________________________ > This message has been scanned by the Datanet VirusScreen Service, > powered by BT Ignite and Messagelabs. For more information please > visit http://www.VirusScreen.co.uk. > ______________________________________________________________ This message has been scanned by the Datanet VirusScreen Service, powered by BT Ignite and Messagelabs. For more information please visit http://www.VirusScreen.co.uk.