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ACKROYD, Marcus, BROCKLISS, Laurence, MOSS, Michael, RETFORD, Kathryn and STEVENSON, John. Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

BLANCO, R.L. Wellington's Surgeon General: Sir James McGrigor. Durham, N.C.: Duke Universirty Press, 1974.

BOSTOCK, John. The Dawn of Australian Psychiatry: an account of the measures taken for the care of mental invalids from the time of the First Fleet, 1788, to the year 1850, including a survey of the overseas background and the case notes of Dr. F. Campbell. Sydney: Australian Medical Association, 1968.

BROCKLISS, Laurence, CARDWELL, John, and MOSS, Michael. Nelson's Surgeon: William Beatty, Naval Medicine, and the Battle of Trafalgar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

BYNUM, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

DIBLE, J.H. Napoleon's Surgeon. London: William Heinemann Medical Books, 1970.

DRUETT, Joan. Rough Medicine: surgeons at sea in the age of sail. New York: Routledge, 2001.

ESTES, J. Worth. Naval Surgeon: life and death at sea in the age of sail. Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications. 1997.

GANDEVIA, Bryan, HOLSTER, Alison, and SIMPSON, Sheila. An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Medicine and Health in Australia. Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians. 1984.

KAUFMAN, Matthew H. Surgeons At War: medical arrangements for the treatment of the sick and wounded in the British Army during the late 18th and 19th centuries. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001. [Contributions in Military Studies, Number 205].

KENNEDY, Dane. "The Perils of the Midday Sun: Climatic Anxieties in the Colonial Tropics." in Imperialism and the Natural World. (ed.) John M. MacKenzie. Manchester: Manchester University Press, c. 1990 pp.118-140.

McGRIGOR, James. Sir James McGrigor: the scalpel and the sword : the autobiography of the father of army medicine. (ed.) Mary McGrigor. Dalkeith: Scottish Cultural Press, 2000.

NEIL, W.D. The Lunatic Asylum at Castle Hill: Australia's first psychiatric hospital 1811-1826. Castle Hill, NSW: Dryas, 1992.

PETERKIN, A. and JOHNSTON, William. Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the British Army 1660-1960. London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1968. [see: Vol.1. 1660-1898, orig. publ. 1917 and 1925].

PORTER, Roy. Bodies Politic: disease, death, and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.

STANLEY, Peter. For Fear of Pain, British Surgery, 1790-1850. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.

Journal Articles

BLANCO, Richard L. "Henry Marshall (1775-1851) and the Health of the British Army." Medical History Vol. 14 No. 3 1970 pp.260-276.

HEWA, Soma. "Dissent and Desire: Colonial Discourse and Medicine in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka Vol. XLII 1997 pp.37-58.

HULL, Gillian. "From Convicts to Founding Fathers: three notable Sydney doctors." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2001 Vol. 94 pp.358-361.

MAHROOF, M.M.M. "The English Doctor in Sri Lanka." The Indian Economic and Social History Review Vol. 35 No. 3 (1998) pp. 275-292.

PEERS, Douglas M. "Soldiers, Surgeons and the Campaigns to Combat Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Colonial India, 1805-1860." Medical History Vol. 42 No. 2 April 1998 pp.137-160.

RICHARDS, David. "Transported to New South Wales: medical convicts 1788-1850." British Medical Journal Vol. 295: 19-26 December 1987 pp.1609-1612.

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