Australia
21 entries published in Australia. 5 publication places.
1859 CE
#10891
Original contributions to the practice of conservative surgery; being a selection from the surgical cases occurring in the practice of James G. Beaney.
The first work on surgery written and published in Australia, and one of the first medical works on any subject written and published in Australia.
1863 CE
#10894
On Australasian climates and their influence in the prevention and arrest of pulmonary consumption.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1869 CE
#10890
Syphilis: Its nature & diffusion popularly considered.
The first work on dermatology or syphilology written, printed and published in Australia. This work is illustrated with chromolithographed plates printed in Australia. This may be the earliest medical book printed in …
1873 CE
#11749
Heart studies in Australia, with observations on aneurism of the aorta.
The first book on heart disease written by an Australian physician and published in Australia.
1907 CE
#12138
Plague in Queensland, 1900-1907.
Ham was Queensland's first Commissioner of Public Health. Extensively illustrated. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1914 CE
#13802
The history of small-pox in Australia 1788-1908.
A second volume, The history of small-pox in Australia, 1909-1923 by J.H.L. Compston and F. McCallum was published in Melbourne: H. J. Green, govt. printer, 1925.
1930 CE–1943 CE
#9621
Official history of the Australian Army Medical Services in the war of 1914-1918
1941 CE
#4614.1
Encephalography.
Robertson improved the accuracy and reliability of encephalography and reduced its discomforts.
1949 CE
#2578.7
The production of antibodies. 2nd ed.
Burnet and Fenner introduced the “self-marker” concept – natural tolerance to one’s own body constituents depended on their presence at a critical stage of embryonic development.
1955 CE
#6604.6
An annotated bibliography of the history of medicine in Australia.
Revised and enlarged as An annotated bibliography of the history of medicine and health in Australia. Sydney, Royal Australian College of Physicians, 1984. With A. Holster and S. Simpson.
1971 CE
#13181
A list of the works of Sir James Young Simpson, 1811-1870: A centenary tribute by K. F. Russell and F. M. C. Forster.
1979 CE
#6786.22
Catalogue of the historical books in the library of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
1983 CE
#6604.81
Australia’s quest for colonial health. Some influences on early health and medicine in Australia.
A collective work edited by Pearn and O’Carrigan.
1983 CE
#10868
Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.
1986 CE
#6623.51
The medical mind of Shakespeare.
1988 CE
#10997
Bibliography of Australian medicine and health services to 1950. 4 vols.
"A joint project of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Department of Community Services and Health."
1988 CE
#10029
Managing madness: Psychiatry and society in Australia 1788-1980.
1988 CE
#6604.82
Pioneer medicine in Australia. Edited by John Hemsley Pearn.
Twenty illustrated essays by various authors.
2002 CE
#8476
Helicobacter pioneers: Firsthand accounts from the scientists who discovered helicobacters 1892-1982. Edited by Barry Marshall.
RE the history of this discovery see this Wikipedia timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_peptic_ulcer_disease_and_Helicobacter_pylori .
2002 CE
#12661
The flight of the Emu: A hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001.
2005 CE
#8700