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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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