73109 SINGLETON, JOHN.
- A Narrative Of Incidents In The Eventful Life Of A Physician.
8vo;
pp. xxiv, 414; portrait frontispiece with inscription from author, 24 b/w plates,
original tan cloth, title page repeated on front board; corrigenda, title lettered
in gilt on spine, spine and corners bumped wear, cloth rubbed particularly on
top and botoom of spine, previous owner's name in red ink on front free endpaper,
pencil marks to fixed front endpaper; minor foxing to endpapers, boards edges
and corners bumoped and chipped; otherwise a good copy. Melbourne, M.L. Hutchinson,
MDCCCXCI (1891). Interesting accounts of bushrangers including 3 pages
on Ned Kelly from boyhood through his various crimes including the police ambush,
siege and wounding to the Gaol hospital where he met him. Wonderful events of
a true doctor for god and mankind who worked wherever needed including prisons
and asylums and with Dr. Charles Smith opened the Melbourne Childrens Hospital
in Stephen Street [ Exhibition Street ] in where it began with twelve beds and
fifteen children as patients with and a thank you from a past patient " for cutting
his throat" the man had been choking and the doctor performs an emergency tracheotomy
on the footpath, an account of Black Thursday, accounts of robberies, executions,
prisoners, Warnabool, aboriginees, Framlingham, Coranderk, Lake Condah, Mount
Gambier, visiting the cells in the city watch-house, floating hulks, papers read
before the Medical Society of Victoria, Collingwood Free Medical Mission Dispensary,
deaths from Pthsis, and much more.
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