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THE “MALTREATMENT SYNDROME” IN CHILDREN
Author(s) -
H PASHAYAN,
W A COCHRANE
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1967.tb21392.x
Subject(s) - citation , shaken baby syndrome , psychology , computer science , medicine , library science , child abuse , medical emergency , suicide prevention , poison control
1. In a paper by N. J. Dunlop,' entitled "An Essay Relating Chiefly to Anresthetics and their Introduction to Australia and Tasmania" appears the following: John Beltsarto, for many years the father of the dental profession in Sydney . . . . started practice in Princes Street, but in 1844 he moved to Spring Street . . . . It was in the Spring Street house that ether was first administered in Australia in 1847 . . . At the very time that Mr. Nathan and Mr. Belisario were experimenting with ether in Sydney, William Ross Pugh at Launceston, in Van Diemen's Land, was operating on patients anresthetized by the vapour of the same drug. On June 7, 1847, Pugh wrote to the .Australian Medical Journal to furnish the results of his trial of ether as an anresthetic on that same day. Dr. Dunlop's paper exhibits a diagram of what would appear from the text to be a modification of Nooth's apparatus, constructed individually and separately by both Belisario and Pugh. Just before the end of Dr. Dunlop's paper appears the following paragraph: There are spots on the earth to which pilgrims repair, which are called sacred and keep green the memory of notable events. This is as it should be. There should be at least one medical shrine in this city. To the members of the medical profession in New South Wales the site of Dr. Belisario's house in Spring Street, Sydney, should be holy ground. It was here, in June, 1847, that the first anresthetic in Australia was administered. 2. In The Dental Magazine ana Oral Topics, Dr. R. W. Hafliday" presented a paper entitled "John Belisario-Father of Australian Dentistry 1820-1900". In it he stated: John Belisario arrived in Australia at the age of 21, having been born in Cheltenham, England, in 1820. By the end of six years, Belisario had established a substantial practice and then suddenly achieved public renown by being the first in Australia to administer surgical anresthesia.