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What would a physician in British America wear while performing their every-day job-related tasks in the mid-to-late 18th century?
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A well known portrait of famous Boston physician Dr. Joseph Warren, painted by John Singleton Copley, shows him in the way he wanted to be seen: as a gentleman. Yet I assume that a practicing physician that delivered babies, performed autopsies, and inoculated against smallpox would not do so while wearing their finest white silk stockings and linen shirts with ruffled cuffs. What did work attire look like for physicians during this period of time?
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