Description: Covers Australian medical history, with a database of medical pioneers and educational background material. Lists doctors who were registered or qualified in Australia, were resident in Australia, or visited here in a professional capacity, before 1875. Includes ships' surgeons, convict doctors, general practitioners and medical specialists.
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Welcome to the Australian Medical Pioneers Index A database of colonial doctors to 1875
AMPI provides biographical data on over 4500 doctors who lived in Australia or visited Australian shores in a medical capacity in colonial days.
General practitioners and specialists are included, along with doctors in the army, the navy, and the colonial (civil) service. There are also records for doctors working in other (non-medical) occupations such as farming.