title: Dispensaries in counties Armagh and Down in the pre-Famine years.
abstract: This paper traces the development of dispensaries in the counties of Armagh and Down in the decades prior to the Great Famine. It examines the number and distribution of dispensaries and discusses their management, finance and daily administration. The role of dispensary doctors, their conditions of employment and the diseases which they treated are also considered.
authors.affiliation: Department of History, Stranmillis College, Belfast.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Beale
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D008489:Medical Indigency / Q000266:history*; D009660:Northern Ireland; D010594:Pharmacies / Q000266:history; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000266:history*