1. R. M. S. McConaghey, ‘The History of Rural Medical Practice’, in F. N. L. Poynter, ed., The Evolution of Medical Practice in Britain (1961), 125.
2. J. H. Raach, A Directory of English Country Physicians 1603–1643 (1962).
3. A good example of this comes from the East Kent parish of Wye, whose seriously ill patients did not employ local practitioners even though ten Wye men were licensed to practise physic or surgery in the seventeenth century. See I. Mortimer, ‘Medical Assistance to the Dying in Provincial Southern England, c.1570–1720’ (Ph.D. thesis, University of Exeter, 2004), 123.
4. R. Sawyer, ‘Patients, Healers and Disease in the South East Midlands, 1597–1634’ (Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986), 126.
5. L. Pollock, With Faith and Physic (1993);