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A Dictionary of Medical and Related Terms for the Family Historian
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This publication is intended to help fellow family historians understand medical terms that are found in parish registers, death certificates and 18th and 19th century books ...
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A Victorian Guide to Healthy Living
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A rubdown with a wet towel is a good sleep inducer; Scotchmen possess vitality on account of oatmeal, pure air and hard exercise; The longer children are out in the open air the better for them. Frost makes them run about to keep warm; To miss a meal occasionally does more good than a feast ...
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An Index of London Hospitals and their Records
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Hospital records are an extremely useful source of information. This book is a compilation of the hospitals throughout London, not just current ones either, together with information on the types of records that exist for each ...
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1883
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Our Price: AU$23.50
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1886
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Our Price: AU$23.50
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1892
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Our Price: AU$23.50
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1896
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Our Price: AU$23.50
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1900
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Our Price: AU$23.50
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory Compendium
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This set contains 8 medical directories at a special discount price.
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Chavasse's Advice to a Wife
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Republished here on fully-searchable CD-ROM is the 15th edition of Pye Henry Chavasse's "Advice to a Wife on the Management of here own Health and on the Treatment of some of the Complaints Incidental to Pregnancy, Labour and Suckling", which was issued in 1909 ...
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Death Certificates and Archaic Medical Terms
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Our Price: AU$10.00
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Death certificates are an important document in family research, This book examines the history and evolution of death certificates. When did they start? What is on them? What were the legal requirements? What does it mean when a death is certified? as well as giving meanings to a number of archaic terms ...
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DNA and Genealogy
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Our Price: AU$39.50
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"DNA and Genealogy" gives a detailed explanation on what you can learn through Y- and mtDNA testing. There are also sections on how to find out if your surname already has a DNA study in progress, how to join a study, and how to form your own ...
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DNA for Genealogists
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The amount of scientific jargon associated with genetics can be intimidating. This publication provides a contextual understanding of DNA suitable for genealogists and discusses the currently available tests that are likely to be of interest to family historians. It shows you how you can use DNA to harness this exciting ...
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Doctors at Sea: Emigrant Voyages to Colonial Australia
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As well as their medical and supervisory duties, especially in relation to children and nursing mothers, we see doctors presiding over courts of law on board as they ...
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Forensic Genealogy
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Forensic scientists and genealogists share the same goal – to find out who was who, and who did what and when. In explaining how to analyze photographs, to mine databases, and to use DNA analysis to reveal family history ...
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How to Interpret Your DNA Test Results for Family History and Ancestry
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Scientists in the news speak out from opposite sides of the fence on the question of DNA testing for researching family history and ancestry. How do you interpret your own DNA test results? If you're a beginning family historian, an oral history researcher, or a person with no science background fascinated with ancestry, here's how to understand and use the results of DNA tests ...
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Illness in Colonial Australia
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This comprehensive work traces the sad, destructive impact on Aboriginal and colonists’ health of the Old World’s crowd diseases—measles, scarlet fever, influenza, smallpox and tuberculosis among them. It also tells of the attempts by mothers and medical professionals to heal and prevent disease ...
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Life in the Victorian Hospital
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Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. However, the medical treatment for such diseases differed significantly, depending on the class of patient ...
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Loxton's Medical Directory 1911
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Our Price: AU$29.50
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands.
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Medical Directory 1915
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Our Price: AU$29.50
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands ans some southern Asian countries.
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Medical Directory for Ireland 1852
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This publication was the first full medical directory of Ireland, published in 1852. It includes all medical practitioners who held a qualification, either as an apothecary (pharmacist) or a medical ...
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Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science
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Our Price: AU$29.00
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This compendious volume is far more than a dictionary, providing a wide range of medical information as it was known at the end of the US Civil War.
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Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Directory of New South Wales 1903
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Our Price: AU$19.50
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Contains a huge amount of statistics and medical information relating specifically to New South Wales in 1903.
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Midwives and Medical Men: A History of the Struggle for the Control of Childbirth
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Up to the 17th century attendance on childbirth was 'women's business', but in the middle of the 19th century it became a male monopoly. This was reversed thanks to feminist ...
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Old Medical and Dental Instruments
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The increasing interest in medical antiques has been reflected in the programmes of all the major auction houses. In addition the formation of the Medical Collectors Association has stimulated interest ...
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Past Imperfect: How Tracing Your Family Medical History Can Save Your Life
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Has anyone in your family ever suffered from depression? Alzheimer's? Breast cancer? Are you at risk?p In 'Past Imperfect', author Carol Daus take you step-by-step through the fascinating ...
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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
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'Saxons, Vikings, and Celts’ has been the result of a systematic ten year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, traces the true genetic makeup of the British Isles and its descendants, taking readers from the Pontnewydd Cave in North Wales to the resting place of the Red Lady of Paviland and the tomb of King Arthur ...
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Surnames, DNA and Family History
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This book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis and show the insights these offer for every kind of genealogical research. The book will be welcomed by all ...
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The Dead Horse Investigation: Forensic Photo Analysis for Everyone
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If you think you have squeezed every drop of information from your photos , guess again? Have you ever considered using an ultraviolet light to dae your photos? What does it mean if you find a photo on the back of an old picture? How can you spot a fake? Even the simplest photo can lead you on an unexpected adventure ...
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The District Nurse
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This illuminating book shows how the role of the district nurse has moved on greatly since Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, expanding and developing to provide a broad range of invaluable health care services in the community ...
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The Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA
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Edward Ball found a secret drawer in a desk, which which someone had hidden a trove of family hair, with each lock of hair labeled and dated. That strange find propelled him to investigte: What might DNA science reveal about the people - family members, long dead - to whom the hair had belonged? Did the hair come from white relatives ...
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The Scots: A Genetic Journey
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History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century. An almost limitless archive of history lies hidden inside our bodies and those with Scottish roots carry the ancient story of Scotland around with us ...
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The Stepping Stone to Homoeopathy and Health
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Published circa 1900, the twelfth edition of this very popular book on homoeopathy by Edward Harris Ruddock gives a comprehensive coverage of the topic ..
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The Victorian Asylum
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Dreaded and reviled by many, Britain's 19th century asylums provide a unique window on how the Victorian's housed and treated the mentally ill. Despite initially good intentions, asylums became warehouses for society's outcasts, where cures were few ...
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The Victorian Hospital
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Nowadays most seriously ill people would want to go to hospital, where they have a reasonable chance of recovery. But the experience of a sick person in the 1830s was ...
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Trace Your Roots with DNA: Using Genetic Tests to Explore Your Family Tree
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You're introduced to a stranger who share your last name. Don't you always wonder ... 'could we be related?' Thanks to breakthrough science in the rapidly growing world of ...
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Tracing Your Medical Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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The medical profession had as much influence on the lives of our ancestors as it does on our lives today. Yet, despite burgeoning interest in all aspects of history and ancestry, medicine has rarely been considered from the point of view of a family historian.
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