| Contents | Health and History, 5.1 | The History Cooperative

Volume 5 • Number 1

2003

Staff

Articles

‘Of Vital Importance to the Community’: The Control of Leprosy in the Northern Territory	1
Suzanne Parry

Matching the Ideal? The First Generation of Nightingale Nursing Probationers, Sydney Hospital, 1868–84	22
Judith Godden

The ‘Sairey Gamps’ of Victorian Nursing? Tales of Drunk and Disorderly Wardsmen in Victorian Public Hospitals between the 1850s and the 1880s	42
Yolande Collins & Sandra A. Kippen

Commercial Interests and Advice on Infant Feeding: Marketing to Mothers in Postwar Queensland	65
Virginia Thorley

‘Outweighing the Public Weal’: The Venereal Diseases Debate in South Australia 1915–1920	90
Susan Lemar


Witnesses to 20th-Century Medicine
A Professor ‘Honorarius’: An Australian Experiment in Medical Administration 1939–64	115
R. G. Evans

Book Reviews

Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865–1900, by Michael Worboys/ Warwick H. Anderson	139

The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Angina Pectoris: Predisposing Causes, Recognition and Aftermath, by Leon Michaels/ Ruth Morley	141

Infectious Diseases: Colonising the Pacific?, by John Miles/ Peter A. Leggat	143

Men of the Ninth: A History of the 9th Australian Field Ambulance 1916–1994, by Robert Likeman/ Michael Tyquin	144

The Final Common Path: Muscle Action and the Evolution of Knowledge Concerning Neuromuscular Disease, Including some Vignettes of those who Contributed to its Understanding, by John H. Pearn/ Peter A. Leggat	145


Contributors	147

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