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!

Heka centrifuge

A trephined neolithic skull

Dräger hyperbaric chamber

Scales (1)

Faulding's Solyptol

Upcoming Meetings:

August 23^rd, 2018

The next meeting of the SAMHS will be held on Thursday, 23^rd of August at the Royal Society Rooms, Kintore Ave, Adelaide at 5:30 pm.

August will be our Annual General Meeting. Our speaker will be neurosurgeon Dr. Brian Brophy who, no doubt, is known to some members through the Royal Australian College of Surgeons. The focus of his talk is the South Australian geologist, explorer and academic Douglas Mawson: "Douglas Mawson and the far east Antarctic journey, 1911-1914".

Members and guests are welcome.

Latest Webpages:

Dr Otto Nichterlein

Myles Flynn

Blood, Sweat and Fears I & II

 

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South Australian Medical Heritage Society,
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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