Person

Maund, John (1823 - 1858)

Born
12 March 1823
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England
Died
3 April 1858
Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Physician and Analytical chemist

Summary

John Maund was founding editor, with Joseph Black, of the "Australian Medical Journal" 1855, founder of the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital (later the Royal Women's Hospital) and government analytical chemist.

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  • Women's Hospital (1856 - 1954)

    Founder of the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital, also known as the Women's Hospital which went on to become the Royal Women's Hospital Victoria

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Book Sections

  • Cooper, Margaret, 'John Maund, 1823-1858' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
  • Forster, Frank M. C., 'Maund, John (1823-1858), physician and analytical chemist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 230-231. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050262b.htm. Details

Conference Papers

  • Kirsop, Wallace, 'The Library of Dr. John Maund', in Patients, Practitioners and Techniques: Second National Conference on Medicine and Health in Australia, Melbourne, 1984 edited by Harold Attwood and R. W. Home (Melbourne: Medical History Unit and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne, a, 1984).. Details

Journal Articles

  • Maund, John, 'The Water of the Plenty River', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1854-1855), 136-143. Details
  • Maund, John, 'On the Mineral Waters of Victoria', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1854-1855), 70-74. Details
  • Maund, John, 'On the Deterioration of Grain and Flour', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1854-1855), 48-53. Details
  • Maund, John, 'Report of analysis of water from Yan Yean', The Australian Medical Journal, 3 (1858), 163-164. Details

Resources

See also

McCarthy, G.J.

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