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Goldrush doctors at Ballaarat / by Keith Macrae Bowden.
Record no.:
6418
Author:
Bowden, Keith Macrae, author.;
Publisher:
[Balwyn, Victoria] :: K. M. Bowden,
Year:
1977.
Description:
xiii, 125 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 29 cm
Subject:
Medicine - Ballarat - History - 19th century.;
Medicine - Victoria - Ballarat - History - 19th century.;
Physicians - Victoria - Ballarat - Biography.;
Gold mines and mining - Victoria - Ballarat - History - 19th century.;
Ballarat (Vic.) - Biography.;
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-122) and indexes.Noel Dan
Gift ;
2023.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0959970320;
Abstract:
1. A ride for life -- 2. Caught without a license -- 3. The voyage of the Araminta -- 4. Qualified or unqualified? -- 5. Tent hospitals -- 6. Some notable operations -- 7. Who killed James Scobie? -- 8. A brutal murder -- 9. Men of enterprise -- 10.
Acupuncture -- 11. Leprosy -- 12. A family tragedy -- 13. The small-pox scare -- 14. The camp surgeons -- 15. The miners' hospital -- 16. Among the patients -- 17. A London doctor's impressions of Ballaarat -- Appendices.
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