Aust Fam Physician. 2001 Nov; 30(11): 1090-1.

Early medical registration in Australia. Part 2.

Dammery D.

The lure of land and gold, the hope for better health and an overcrowded profession in Britain led to an increasing number of doctors migrating to Australia. This migration was even more marked after the goldrush, especially in Victoria. The fifth article in this series looks at the way in which medical practice was controlled by excluding many of those doctors who were from non-British origins.