Dentist on a Camel

WEST AUSTRALIANA / MEDICINE

Harold Vernon Mattingley was a dentist on the Goldfields, arriving in 1898.
Biography of the author’s father, who spent twelve years between 1898 and 1910 as a dentist on the West Australian goldfields ; includes observations about the teeth of Aboriginal people encountered.
xi, 67 p. : ill., facsisms., ports. (1 col.) ; 23 cm. #280822 First Edition.
(Label on spine cover and fep, otherwise pristine.)
Mattingley, Harold Vernon, 1879-1961. | Dentists — Western Australia — Biography. | Dentists — Victoria — History. | Health status – Dental health. | Occupations – Health workers. | History – Biographies – Non-Indigenous. | Human biology – Physical anthropology – Dentition. | Coolgardie (SE WA Goldfields SH51-09) | Kalgoorlie-Boulder (SE WA Goldfields SH51-09)