1776 FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798); FORSTER, Johann Georg Adam (1754 – 1794)
Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis, collegerunt, descripserunt, delinearunt, annis 1772-1775.
This account of botanical discoveries made by the Forsters in Australia and New Zealand on Cook's second voyage was one of the earliest scientific publications resulting from that voyage. Specimens were illustrated on…
GMN 12477 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14710
1790 WHITE, John (1756 – 1832); STONE, Sarah (1760 – 1844)
Journal of a voyage to New South Wales with sixty five plates of non descript. animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions
This work described many Australian species for the first time. It includes natural history illustrations after watercolor paintings by Sarah Stone. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link
GMN 7366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9538
1793 –1795 WHITE, John (1756 – 1832); SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828); SOWERBY, James (1757 – 1822)
A specimen of the botany of New Holland
The first published book on the flora of Australia, issued by Sowerby in four parts between 1793 and 1795. It included 16 hand-colored plates reproducing paintings by Sowerby, mostly based on sketches by John White, a…
GMN 12951 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15198
1805 DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
An epitome of the natural history of the insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and other islands in the Indian, Southern, and Pacific oceans: Including the figures and descriptions of one hundred and fifty-three species of the more splendid, beautiful, and interesting insects, hitherto discovered in those countries, and which for the most part have not appeared in the works of any preceding author. The figures are correctly delineated from specimens of the insects; and with the descriptions are arranged according to the Linnæan system, with reference to the writings of Fabricius and other entomologists.
"Apart from occasional excursions in England and Wales Donovan never left London. His Insects of New Holland is based on specimens collected by Joseph Banks and William Bayly an astronomer on the second and third voya…
GMN 9085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11264
1841 GREY, Sir George (1812 – 1898)
Journals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39...describing many new discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical conditions of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. 2 vols.
"In 1837, at the age of 25, Grey led an ill-prepared expedition that explored North-West Australia. British settlers in Australia at the time knew little of the region and only one member of Grey's party had been ther…
GMN 13014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15264
1843 –1859 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843.
Part 1: Flora of Lord Auckland and Campbell's Islands (1843-45); Part 2: Flora of Fuegia, the Falklands, Karguellen's land, etc. (1845-47); Part 3: Flora of New Zealand. 2 vols. (1851-53); Part 4: Flora of Tasmania. 2…
GMN 7448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9620
1859 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the Flora of Tasmania. Offprint from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, Vol. III (Flora Tasmaniae), part I (June, 1859).
The first important botanical work by a supporter of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Hooker, a botanist and plant geographer, had been a close friend of Darwin for many years, and was aware of Darwi…
GMN 7446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9618
1859 BEANEY, James George (1828 – 1891)
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.
GMN 10891 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13087
1863 –1878 BENTHAM, George (1800 – 1884); MUELLER, Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von (1825 – 1896)
Flora Australiensis: A description of the plants of the Australian territory by George Bentham, assisted by Ferdinand Mueller. 7 vols.
The first comprehensive flora of any large continental area. It included descriptions of 8125 species. "Bentham prepared the flora from Kew; with Mueller, the first plant taxonomist residing permanently in Australia, …
GMN 9172 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11351
1863 BIRD, Samuel Dougan (1832 – 1904)
On Australasian climates and their influence in the prevention and arrest of pulmonary consumption.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 10894 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13090
1869 BEANEY, James George (1828 – 1891)
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 …
GMN 10890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13086
1873 REEVES, Charles Evans
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.
GMN 11749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13949
1889 MAIDEN, Joseph Henry (1859 – 1925)
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…
GMN 13509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15784
1893 SAVILLE-KENT, William (1845 – 1908)
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; Its products and potentialities, containing an account, with copious coloured and photographic illustrations (the latter here produced for the first time), of the corals and coral reefs, pearl and pearl-shell, bêche-de-mer, other fishing Industries, and the marine fauna of the Australian Great Barrier region.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage LIbrary at this link.
GMN 11810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14012
1896 BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820); HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks...during Captain Cook's first voyage in H.M.S. Edeavour in 1766-71 to Terra de Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies. Etc. Edited by Sir Joseph D. Hooker.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 12949 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15196
1906 BANCROFT, Thomas Lane (1860 – 1933)
On the etiology of dengue fever.
Bancroft was the first to produce evidence that Aëdes aegypti is a vector of dengue.
GMN 5472 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7611
1907 HAM, Bertie Burnett (1865 – )
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.
GMN 12138 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14347
1912 WOOD JONES, Frederick (1879 – 1954)
Coral and atolls. A history and description of the Keeling-Cocos Islands, with an account of their fauna and flora, and a discussion of the method of development and transformation of coral structures in general.
Wood Jones was one of the first to study coral reefs as living organisms interacting with their environment. Prior to Wood Jones's book most of the work on corals was done from the systematics viewpoint using specimen…
GMN 11812 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14014
1914 CUMPSTON, John Howard Lidgett (1890 – 1954)
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.
GMN 13802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16089
1916 CLELAND, Sir John Burton (1878 – 1971); ET AL
On the transmission of Australian dengue by the mosquito Stegomyia fasciata.
These workers proved that Aëdes aegypti (Stegomyia fasciata) is capable of transmitting dengue fever. See also J. Hyg. (Camb.), 1918, 16, 317-418. With C. H. Bradley and W. McDonald.
GMN 5474 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7616
1917 CAMPBELL, Alfred Walter (1868 – 1937); CLELAND, Sir John Burton (1878 – 1971)
The Australian epidemics of an acute polio-encephalomyelitis (X disease).
Campbell was Australia's first neurologist. This paper described Murray Valley encephalitis (Australian X disease). Cleland and Campbell isolated a virus from the cerebral tissue of three patients.
GMN 4648 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/738
1918 BARRETT, James William Sir (1862 – 1945); DEANE, Percival Edgar (Percy) (1890 – 1946)
The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt. An illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13194
1928 DEW, Sir Harold Robert (1891 – 1962)
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.
GMN 5351 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6877
1930 –1943 BUTLER, Arthur Graham (1872 – 1949)
Official history of the Australian Army Medical Services in the war of 1914-1918
GMN 9621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11808
1935 HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825 – 1895); HUXLEY, Sir Julian Sorell (1887 – 1975)
T. H. Huxley's diary of the voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake. Edited from the unpublished ms
Huxley served as assistant surgeon and naturalist aboard the Rattlesnake (1845-50) which made cruises from Australia to Louisiade Archipelago, New Guinea and Cape York. His diary is illustrated with his own drawings.
GMN 7449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9621
1937 KENNY, Elizabeth (1886 – 1952)
Infantile paralysis and cerebral diplegia: Methods used for the restoration of function.
GMN 4671 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/870
1949 CADE, John Frederick Joseph (1912 – 1980)
Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement.
The first clinical trial of lithium.
GMN 1930.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2748
1955 GANDEVIA, Bryan Harle (1925 – 2006)
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.
GMN 6604.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8537
1976 FORD, Sir Edward (1902 – 1986)
Bibliography of Australian medicine 1790-1900.
2567 annotated entries, including topics such as nursing, dentistry, etc.
GMN 6604.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8538
1977 HALLIDAY, Robert W.
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.
GMN 12915 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15162
1978 GANDEVIA, Bryan Harle (1925 – 2006)
Tears often shed. Child health and welfare in Australia from 1788.
GMN 6604.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8539
1978 REID, Janice Clare (1947 – )
Sorcery and healing: The meaning of illness and death to an Australian aboriginal community.
GMN 10869 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13065
1979 RUSSELL, Kenneth Fitzpatrick (1911 – 1987)
Catalogue of the historical books in the library of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
GMN 6786.22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8386
1983 PEARN, John Hemsley (1940 – ); O'CARRIGAN, Catharine (1919 – 2010)
Australia’s quest for colonial health. Some influences on early health and medicine in Australia.
A collective work edited by Pearn and O’Carrigan.
GMN 6604.81 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8540
1983 REID, Janice Clare (1947 – )
Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.
GMN 10868 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13064
1987 PATRICK, Ross (1914 – 2005)
A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.
GMN 12139 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14348
1988 PEARN, John Hemsley (1940 – )
Pioneer medicine in Australia. Edited by John Hemsley Pearn.
Twenty illustrated essays by various authors.
GMN 6604.82 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8564
1988 BARR, Andy
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…
GMN 7221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9389
1988 LEWIS, Milton James
Managing madness: Psychiatry and society in Australia 1788-1980.
GMN 10029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12218
1988 ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
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."
GMN 10997 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13193
1990 REID, Janice Clare (1947 – ); TROMPF, Peggy
The health of immigrant Australia: A social perspective.
GMN 10870 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13066
1997 LEWIS, Milton James; BAMBER, Scott; WAUGH, Michael
Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.
GMN 10030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12219
2001 PEARN, John Hemsley (1940 – )
A doctor in the garden: Nomen medici in botanicis. Australian flora and the world of medicine.
GMN 10892 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13088
2002 ROBIN, Libby
The flight of the Emu: A hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001.
GMN 12661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14905
2002 CAMPBELL, Judy
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…
GMN 13567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15845
2003 LEWIS, Milton James
The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1788-1950. Vol. 2: The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1950 to the present. 2 vols.
GMN 10028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12217
2005 ANDERSON, Warwick Hugh (1958 – )
The cultivation of whiteness: Science, health and racial destiny in Australia.
GMN 8700 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10877
