Outback medicine : some vignettes of pioneering medicine / editor: John Pearn.

Brisbane : Amphion Press (Dept of Child Health University of Queensland), Royal Children's Hospital, 1994.

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Medical care -- Queensland.

Hospitals -- Queensland -- History.

Rural health -- Queensland -- History.

Part I. : Pioneers of the North.

1. Surgeons, sea and shore

2. To minister to the sick

3. Outpost mining towns and medical practice

Part II. : Disease in the outposts

4. Yellow fever in Northern Australia

5. Snakebite remedies

6. Epidemic in the wet

7. The North Queensland fevers

8. Vignettes of health and medicine

Part III. : Hospitals. 9. Medical care at Barcaldine

10. Australia's first nursing research unit --11. Laborem non recuso

Part IV. : Outpost military medicine. 12. The white cross in the north

13. The corps on the cape

14. The ninth field ambulance

Part V. : Benefactors and pioneers

15. Making do women's bush remedies

16. Pioneer dental anaesthesia

17. Northern exchanges

18. A tiger by the tail.

Includes index.

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xviii, 366 p. : ill., facisms., maps, ports.