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!

Dräger hyperbaric chamber

Technetium Cow

Pill maker

Bone scan

Corporal Coles' prosthetic hand

Upcoming Meetings:

March 28^th, 2019

The next meeting of the SAMHS will be held on Thursday, 28^th of March at the Royal Society Rooms, Kintore Ave, Adelaide at 5:30 pm.

Our speaker this month will be Dr Tony Swain, well known to many and who last spoke to us three years ago on a military topic, Sir Raphael Cilento. This time he will follow the course of anaesthesia in South Australia.

Dr Tony Swain - "Painless Surgery: The evolution of anaesthesia in SA and beyond".

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