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SECOND HAND BOOK
“The original wards were dark, dirty and foul-smelling; alcohol was so freely prescribed that some citizens regarded the out-patients’ department as a free grog shop; blood-letting was another favourite remedy. Yet from the beginning the hospital had an ideal of community service – an ideal which was realized more and more completely as it developed into a great modern public hospital, and a teaching and research centre.”
Published in 1958 by Melbourne University Press, this is a fascinating account of the early history of the Royal Melbourne,
Good condition, general wear and tear, some fading and damage to cloth cover, no dust jacket.
Hardback, 226pp, 1958.
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