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!

Faulding's Solyptol

John Goodchild, WW2

Bone scan

Heka centrifuge

A trephined neolithic skull

Upcoming Meetings:

April 22^nd, 2021

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

This month Robert Bauze will change the theme to surgery with a presentation on early practices in South Australia.

Due to the pandemic, there will be a limit of 40 people. If you wish to attend, please contact the Secretary (Joy) to be to reserve a place.

Associate Professor Robert Bauze - "Bonesetting, Barossa Valley & early South Australian Orthopaedics"

Members and guests are welcome.

Latest Webpages:

Dr William Angove

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

Dr Otto Nichterlein

 

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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