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Eleanor Dark's Slow dawning: a woman in rural practice in the 1920s

Bill Coote
Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb00067.x
Published online: 5 December 2005

Eleanor Dark (by Olive Cotton, 1945) © The Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.


  • 20 Ryrie Street, Campbell, Canberra, ACT.


Correspondence: 

Acknowledgements: 

I would like to thank Associate Professor Jill Gordon, Ms Anne Messenger and Dr Dorothy Coote for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this article.

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