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Tag: Mathias Michal Perl

  • Dr. Monty Perl—Pioneering Australian venereologist

    Michael AbramsonMelbourne, Australia Mathias Michal (known as Monty) Perl was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 6 January 1873, the first son and second child of Michael Mathias Perl and Miriam (Mary) Davis. His father had arrived in Port Phillip aboard the Arabian in 1853 and established a successful business as a general merchant, wholesale…