Illness in colonial Australia
By: F B Smith
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781921509193
Subjects: Social life and customs; Diseases; Diseases & disorders; Public health; Medicine; History of medicine; History
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-363) and index.

Tertiary/Undergraduate.