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

Pill maker

"Both" ECG

Hand X-ray by William Bragg, 1886

Rib cutter

Upcoming Meetings:

Sep 26^th, 2019

Prof. Donald Simpson Memorial Oration

The next meeting of the SAMHS will be held on Thursday, 26^th of September at the Royal Society Rooms, Kintore Ave, Adelaide at 5:30 pm.

The speaker for this month will be Prof. Christopher Burrell, who will present a talk about one of the deadliest pandemics in history, the "Spanish flu" pandemic of 1918-19.

Prof. Christopher Burrell - "100^th Anniversary of "Spanish flu", the 1918-19 influenza pandemic"

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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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