Practice makes perfect. Essay review - Irvine Loudon, Medical care and the general practitioner 1750–1850, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xvi, 354, £30.00. - John Harley Warner, The therapeutic perspective: medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America 1820–1885, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. x, 367, £27.50. - Volume 32 Issue 1