Illness in colonial Australia / F. B. Smith.
- Smith, F. B. (Francis Barrymore), 1932-2015.
- Date:
- 2011
- Books
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Description
Traces the sad, destructive impact on Aboriginal and colonists' health of the Old World's crowd diseases - measles, scarlet fever, influenza, smallpox and tuberculosis among them. Tells of the attempts to heal and prevent disease. Smith sets his account in the context of political, economic and social history.
Publication/Creation
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Pub., 2011.
Physical description
371 pages ; 23 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographic references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineBW.91.AA8-9Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9781921509193
- 1921509198