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!

Corporal Coles' prosthetic hand

Hand X-ray by William Bragg, 1896

Heka centrifuge

Kapunda Museum

Träger pedal radio

Upcoming Meetings:

June 24^th, 2021

The next meeting of the SAMHS will be held on Thursday, 24^th of June at the Royal Society Rooms, Kintore Ave, Adelaide at 5:30 pm.

The guest speaker for June will be the current Chief Scientist of SA, Prof. Caroline McMillen AO who completed her medical studies at Cambridge.

Due to the pandemic, there will be a limit of 50 people. If you wish to attend, please contact the Secretary (Joy) to reserve a place.

Prof. Caroline McMillen AO - "The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters"

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

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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