half-medical

Updated: September 23, 2026

This country doctor, like others of his profession at the same date, had not studied deeply in college and hospital; nor had he taken any long course of instruction in foreign schools and universities. When he had decided to become a doctor, he had simply ridden with an old, established physician ridden literally in a half-menial, half-medical capacity.

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England