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- Title
Death of the first white resident of North Queensland.
- Authors
Bossingham, D.
- Abstract
The first white resident of North Queensland’s death certificate gives the final illness as ‘arthritis’. This examination of contemporary records and more recent reports, together with the results of discussion with colleagues interested in medicine and history, attempts to suggest the reasons for his various symptoms and his final demise. This life story is reminiscent of a ‘Boy’s own’ adventure with shipwrecks, survival at sea, coexistence with Aboriginal tribesmen before returning to ‘white society’, marriage and the start of a family. Are there lessons here for the twenty-first century physician and rheumatologist? Would the commonplace illnesses of mid nineteenth-century Queensland be very different to the problems seen in our outpatient clinics today?
- Subjects
NORTH Queensland (Qld.); QUEENSLAND; HISTORY of medicine; RHEUMATOLOGISTS; PHYSICIANS
- Publication
Internal Medicine Journal, 2008, Vol 38, Issue 10, p804
- ISSN
1444-0903
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1445-5994.2008.01754.x