Harvard Medical School
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, many more Australians attended Harvard Dental School than Harvard Medical School. A couple of factors probably contributed to this difference. Medical degrees became available in Australia sooner than dental degrees. In particular, the coveted doctoral degree was available to medical students in Australia or Great Britain whereas doctoral degrees for dental students were available only in the United States before the twentieth century. British medical degrees had greater prestige than American degrees, in part, because of the questionable status of some American medical schools. Secondly, as the medical profession became more institutionalized, American medical degrees were usually not recognised as qualifying an individual to practice in Australia.
In the nineteenth century, I have found records of only three doctors with Harvard Medical degrees who practised in Australia: two were Canadians, Hugh Johnstone Speer and Alexander Rankin Hutchinson, and the other was Constant Broyer of Melbourne who is possibly the first student from Australia to have studied at Harvard. Christopher Gunn, who advertised with a Harvard degree in Brisbane and Georgetown (Queensland), was an impostor.