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    Wellcome Museum
    History Week May 2009
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Other medical museums and resources

The Virtual Museum - Galleries and Pages

Outstanding items from Adelaide

Medicine
     Both iron lung 
     Cardiac pacemakers 
     GP doctors bag 
     Drugs and other non-surg Rx 
          Capsule manufacture 
          Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
          Enema kit 
          Fauldings Drug Company
          Homeopathic medicine
          Nasal douche 
     Lab and other tests except x-ray
          Biochemistry then and now
          Both ECG
          Coulter counter 
          Haemocytometers 
          Haemoglobinometer
     Medical Scales 
     Needles and syringes 
     Sphygmomanometer (von Recklin..)
     Stethoscopes

Surgery
     Apparatus collection of Dr Roy Francis
     Bleeding cup 
     Dentistry - history
           - in general
           - in South Australia
     Eyes and ENT
          19th century ophthalmoscope 
          Schotz Tonometer
          Anaesthesia for tonsillectomy 
          Glass eye manufacture
          Laryngeal mirror  
     Lithotomy Instruments

Surgery [continued]
     Neurosurgery
     Orthopedics
          Charnley hip prosthesis 
          Hip replacement surgery 
          Splints
          Prostheses
          Wheelchairs  
     Surgical bags and instruments 
     Sutures

Anaesthesia
     History in general
     Anaesthesia for ENT 

X-rays & xray therapy
     Bragg-Ruhmkorff Coil
     Bragg’s Peak and Radiotherapy
     Fauldings Co and X-Rays 
     Helical CT Scanner
     Linear accelerators 
     Jones and Partners 1918 machine
     Old x-ray equipment in S. Australia  
     Particle therapy
     Phototherapy
     Portable Tesla coil (violet ray wand)

Hospitals and other institutions 
     Flying Doctor Service and wireless 
     Glenside
           History
           Z-ward
           Mortuary
     Jamestown Museum
          Iron Lung 
     Middleton Tavern
     Old RAH
     Queens Home 
     WCH
     Woomera Hospital

Notable individuals
     Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn
     Both, EA
     Bragg, Sir William
     Byrne, Alfred
     Chadwick, Allan - bush pilot
     Chapple, Dr. Phoebe
     Faulding, FA
     Fisher, RA
     Goodchild, JG
     Hicks, Stanley and Wiles
     Jones & Partners [*radiology]
     Last family - Raymond, John and Peter
     Lindon, Sir Leonard
     McKay, Douglas Gordon
     Newland, Sir Henry
     Swann, Charles
     Gemmel Tassie OAM, GP

Nursing
      Nursing uniforms
      Nursing in wartime

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