Person

De Garis, Mary Clementina (1881 - 1963)

Born
16 December 1881
Charlton, Victoria, Australia
Died
18 November 1963
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Physician

Summary

Mary De Garis was one of the early medical graduates of the University of Melbourne (MD 1907). She was a lone medical officer in outback Australia 1907-1914, served in Europe during World War I and set up a private practice in Geelong thereafter.

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Archival resources

University of Melbourne, Brownless Medical Library

  • Mary De Garis - Records, 1900 - 1988; University of Melbourne, Brownless Medical Library. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

  • Lee, Ruth, Woman war doctor: the life of Mary de Garis (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014), 197 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • McCalman, Janet, 'De Garis, Elisha (Elizee) Clement (1851-1948)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 270-271. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080290b.htm. Details

Resources

Theses

  • Lee, Ruth, 'Mary De Garis: Progressivism, Early Feminism and Medical Reform', PhD thesis, Deakin University, 2010, 271 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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