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This option will search all database fields Medical Specialty: Please Choose One Accoucheur Anatomist Apothecary General practitioner Medical administrator Medical educator Medical librarian Medical officer to aborigines Military surgeon Naval surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist Ophthalmologist Paediatrician Pathologist Physician Physiologist Prison medical officer Psychiatrist Public health officer Ship's surgeon Surgeon Other Occupations: Please Choose One Agriculturist Anthropologist Archaeologist Art collector Artist Banker Bookseller Botanist Chemist Churchman Collector Company director Convict Coroner Creative writer Diarist Editor Electoral officer Entomologist Evangelist Explorer Gardener Geographer Geologist Goldminer Governor Historian Hotelier Immigration agent Industrialist Inventor Journal editor Journalist JP Land Commissioner Lawyer Librarian Linguist Magistrate Mayor Minister of Religion Missionary Musician Naturalist Ornithologist Parliamentarian Pastoralist Philanthropist Philatelist Philosopher Plant collector Politician Premier Prison reformer Public servant Public vaccinator Race horse owner Registrar of births, deaths and marriages Scientist Ship owner Slave trader Soldier Stationer Storekeeper Surveyor Teacher Theatre critic Traveller University lecture Winegrower Writer Zoologist

Advanced searching on AMPI:

Using the advanced search feature, you can search the full text of AMPI. For example, by entering a ship's name, you might find the entries for that ship's doctors on various different voyages. By entering a place name you might identify doctors who lived there.

But note that AMPI does not include a complete set of data for every doctor. Some records are very brief. Thus a search for "Bendigo" will retrieve some but not all of the doctors who lived in Bendigo.

Be aware also that place names vary considerably, and so do their spellings. Thus Bendigo is often called "Sandhurst", Port Fairy is often called "Belfast", Geelong is often called "Corio", and Ballarat may be "Ballaarat".

A ship's name has only one correct spelling, but ship names are often spelled incorrectly in old records. In addition, several ships in succession sometimes had the same name.

Searching for dates is limited to searching for years ("1843").