After the 1789 Revolution in France, hospitals in the state was reformed in a way that allowed medical knowledge to advance. The ideals of France later spread across Europe and was known as Paris medicine. The most …show more content…
Other people outside this small sect saw “Any attempt to create a privileged monopoly… as a violation of the egalitarian spirit of the American Revolution” (Waller, “Doctors on Horseback”). The government was therefore not persuaded to limit the number of people entering this trade, it went against the pillars it was built on. There were also scandals involving medical students and grave robbing, which gave them a bad reputation. In addition to this the educated did not make research a priority, so original scientific work was not being produced. The combined force that these situations created worked to keep physicians from achieving a high