Doctors in Australia: A Dr. John de Lisle Hammond, of Maitland, NSW, AUSTRALIA, directed me to a publication called the "Medical Directory of Australia", published by the Australian Medical Publishing Company for Australian doctors. He said he would imagine it should be available in a decent Reference Library. The records of the New South Wales Medical Board http://www.cundle.com.au/assoc/nswmb/nswmb.html are widely available on microfilm in Australia and qualifications will be given. Their list of registered Medical Practitioners appears in the NSW Gazette from 1838. The catalogue of The State Library of New South Wales http://dixson.slnsw.gov.au/ Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 AUSTRALIA, shows they hold 1838-1942 under reference number MDQ 328.6/1. History of Canadian/UK Occupations http://www.tip.net.au/~dnum/occsites.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------ For doctors within the United States, here are the sources for them to be found: (A)"Directory of Deceased American Physicians: 1804 - 1929." 2 vol. Chicago: American Medical Association, 1992. The American Medical Assoc. has collected information on the personal and professional backgrounds of more than 350,000 doctors who have practiced in the US. Some of the records date back to the early 1800s and continue through the year 1969, although the records kept rpior to 1907 do not contain as much information as the later files. These records are now in the possession of the National Genealogcial Society in Arlington, VA. Persons wishing to inquire about the records and search fees should write to the National Genealogical Society, 4527 17th Street, Arlington, VA 22207. The Genealogical Society of Utah has made arrangements to microfilm the collection and will make it available at the Family History Library and its Family History Centers. Directory of deceased American physicians, 1804-1929: a genealogical guide to over 149,000 medical practitioners providing brief biographical sketches, published in 1993 by the American Medical Association. If you live in California, the libraries at University of California campuses at Davis, Los Angeles (UCLA) <http://www.ucla.edu/>, San Diego and San Francisco have this set. Also check the very large public libraries. There is now a searchable database <http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu/> at the University of California. This came by e-mail on April 23 1998: Margaret Lipscomb <mailto:lipscomb@cyburban.com> who reports that more information about the Directory of Deceased American Physicians 1804-1929 can be found here <http://www.texmed.org/library_catalog/r000006/r005221.htm> and that the USUHS - Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is worth investigating, especially their Resources for Medical History Papers <http://www.usuhs.mil/meh/histres.html> pages.