South Australian Medical Heritage Society
Society Website & Virtual Museum

Iron lung - polio epidemic

Headache powders which damaged kidneys

Basylist


Kidney biopsy

Welcome and please enjoy!

Torrens Island Accomodation block

Heka centrifuge

A trephined neolithic skull

Calvary Hospital, 1906

"Both" ECG

Upcoming Meetings:

October 22^nd, 2020

The next meeting of the SAMHS will be held on Thursday, 22^nd of October at the Royal Society Rooms, Kintore Ave, Adelaide at 5:30 pm.

The Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on October 22^nd. The current executive and committee have all been nominated for another term, but further nominations are welcome.

If you wish to be nominated, or to nominate someone else, please contact either the Secretary (Joy) or the President (Ian) as soon as possible.

Unless the corona rules change, the meeting will be capped at 25 people. Please contact the Secretary to register attendance beforehand, as we did last month.

The speaker for this month will be Professor Margaret Davy AM, a former chairwoman of the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and a recipient of the Member of the Order of Australia award for her services to Women's Health.

Professor Margaret Davy, AM - "Gynaecological Oncology"

Members and guests are welcome.

Latest Webpages:

Sir Douglas Mawson and the Far East Antarctic Journey, 1911/1914

Dr Otto Nichterlein

Myles Flynn

 

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South Australian Medical Heritage Society,
please see our membership form.

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please let us know :
Contact / Web Content (Tony Slavotinek)
Web Editor / Web Master (Greg Sampson)

RAH nurses 1939

Amoeba causing meningitis

Old obstetric stethoscope

Bragg hand x-ray 1896

RA Fisher,
statistics pioneer. His ashes are buried at St Peter's Cathedral, North Adelaide