Colonial Doctor and his Town: Chapter 1

Acknowledgments
Foreword

Chapter 1 - Towards a Medical Career

Suffolk and London
Brunswick, Victoria to Darlingford
Mansfield's Original Occupiers
Building a Colonial Practice
The Hospital and the Mailboy

Chapter 2 - Colonial Cameos

The Wild Ones
The Doctor as Gardener
The Colonial Housewife
The Widow Wappan
Colonial Entertainments

Chapter 3 - Mansfield's Pioneer Families

The Squatters
Yeomen Farmers
Mansfield Townspeople

Chapter 4 - Practising Medicine in the Country

Bush Midwives
Children's Ailments
Clean Water, Snakes and Fevers

Chapter 5 - The Family Grows Up

The Doctor's Family: Mansfield and Places West
The Land - "It's One Big Headache"

Chapter 6 - Mansfield Fights Isolation

The Enterprising Packers
Horses and Coaches
The Railway
The Candidate and other Wordy Visitors

Chapter 7 - End of an Era

The Ever-ready Historian
The Doctor's Closing Years

Appendices
Bibilography
Index

Colonial Doctor and his Town