Australia

1859

#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

#10894

On Australasian climates and their influence in the prevention and arrest of pulmonary consumption.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1869

#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

#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.

1889

#13509

The useful native plants of Australia. (Including Tasmania).

Maiden, a botanist, was Curator and Secretary of The Technological, Industrial, and Sanitary Museum of New South Wales. Chapters include. 1. Human Food and Food adjuncts; 2. Forage Plants; 3. Drugs; 4. Gums, Resins, a…

1907

#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

#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.

1928

#5351

Hydatid disease. Its pathology, diagnosis and treatment.

Dew’s book remains the authoritative source. His many contributions to the knowledge of hydatid disease are summarized in it.

1930 –1943

#9621

Official history of the Australian Army Medical Services in the war of 1914-1918

1937

#4671

Infantile paralysis and cerebral diplegia: Methods used for the restoration of function.

1941

#4614.1

Encephalography.

Robertson improved the accuracy and reliability of encephalography and reduced its discomforts.

1942

#12108

Influenza: A survey of the last fifty years in the light of modern work on the virus of epidemic influenza.

1949

#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

#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

#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.

1976

#6604.7

Bibliography of Australian medicine 1790-1900.

2567 annotated entries, including topics such as nursing, dentistry, etc.

1977

#12915

A history of dentistry in New South Wales, 1788-1945. Original manuscript by R. W. Halliday, arranged and edited by A. O. Watson. Foreword by Robert Harris.

1978

#6604.8

Tears often shed. Child health and welfare in Australia from 1788.

1979

#6786.22

Catalogue of the historical books in the library of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

1983

#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

#10868

Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.

1986

#6623.51

The medical mind of Shakespeare.

1987

#12139

A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.

1988

#6604.82

Pioneer medicine in Australia. Edited by John Hemsley Pearn.

Twenty illustrated essays by various authors.

1988

#7221

Traditional bush medicines: An aboriginal pharmacopoeia.

Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory of Australia. Collated and researched by Andy Barr, project manager; Joan Chapman, pharmacist; Nick Smith, botanist, Maree Beveridge, computer operator; Terry Knight, p…

1988

#10029

Managing madness: Psychiatry and society in Australia 1788-1980.

1988

#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."

1990

#9736

A history of medicine in Papua New Guinea.

1991

#11236

A bibliography of Johann Remmelin the anatomist

1996

#11183

Historic Embryology Papers.

https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Historic_Embryology_Papers#Introduction "Introduction The linked papers are intended to give some historic background to Embryology. Historically, say pre-20th c…

2001

#10892

A doctor in the garden: Nomen medici in botanicis. Australian flora and the world of medicine.

2002

#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

#12661

The flight of the Emu: A hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001.

2002

#13567

Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.

"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? "A…

2005

#8700

The cultivation of whiteness: Science, health and racial destiny in Australia.