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ACKNO\EDGEMENTS
I wish to thank all those who have assisted me in this work .
Although it is not possible to name them all, I would like to mention
especially the following: - Dr M. Roe of the Department of History,
University of Tasmania, for suggesting the topic, for reading the
manuscript and for his advice; Mrs M. Nicholls for introducing me to
vailable sources of material in Hobart; the Staff of the Archives
Office of Tasmania; Mr G. Stilwell; Sir William Crowther; Mr J. Thornton
of St. Bartholomew' s Hospital Library for the gift of his book on
J. Abernethy , and the Staff of the Wellcome Research Foundation for
Medical History, London. I would particularly like to thank the
Interloan Section of the Tasmanian University Library and the History
Department for their assistance in obtaining articles by E.S. Hall.
Also, I wish to thank the typists of the History Department for typing
the first draft of the thesis and Mrs Rosalyn Behrens for her invaluable
work in typing the final copy. Lastly I wish to thank my son, Philip,
for his insistence some years ago that I put my time to better use and
my husband, Les lie, whose encouragement and financial support made it
possible for me to do this work.
E.F. Haynes
December, 1976.