Item #102083 The Australian Medical Journal ... Volume VI, 1861
The Australian Medical Journal ... Volume VI, 1861

The Australian Medical Journal ... Volume VI, 1861

Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861.

Octavo, [ii], 213 pages.

Contemporary half calf and cloth; leather lightly rubbed at the extremities, with minor wear to the corner tips and the foot of the spine; endpapers offset; a few 1950s Commonwealth Department of Health stamps and related call numbers on a few pages; an excellent copy.

Twelve monthly issues bound together with a title leaf and a cumulative index at the rear. There are numerous articles of interest in the volume, ranging from adulteration of food, to hydatids and snake-bites. The Hon. William Bland MLC contributed 'Bites of the Venomous Snakes of Australia' (6 pages), in which he recounts a personal encounter involving the explorer Captain William Hovell in 1819. (Bland later edited Hume and Hovell's 'Journey of Discovery to Port Phillip').

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