Title: Illness in colonial Australia
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Diseases, Diseases & disorders, Public health, Medicine, History of medicine, History, Diseases and disorders series, History, 19th Century, Health Services, Routledge library editions
Places: Australia