(1)In colonial America, anyone could become a physician merely by adopting the label. (2)There were no medical schools or medical societies to license or regulate what was a free-for-all trade. (3)Sometimes clergymen tried to provide medical care to their parishioners, and care of a sort was offered by all kinds of laypeople as well. (4)Documents of the time record a doctor who sold "tea, sugar, olives, grapes, anchovies, raisins, and prunes" along with medicinals. (5)Documents also tell of a woman who "Acts here in the Double Capacity of a Doctoress and Coffee Woman." (6) Training for medical practice, such as it was, was given by apprenticeship. 1. The passage suggests that in comparison to today, a medical practice in colonial America
a. must have been harder to establish.
b. probably required more study.
q c. was less likely to be full-time.​