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!

Rib cutter

"Both" ECG

Kapunda Museum

A trephined neolithic skull

Bone scan

Upcoming Meetings:

May 23^rd, 2019

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

Our speaker this month, Dr Clive Pay, is an engineer who will speak about two South Australian brothers, Ted and Don Both. The Both brothers were responsible for a number of lifesaving medical inventions, as well as other handy items (eg: the Adelaide Oval Scoreboard).

Dr Clive Pay - "The remarkable Both brothers: unsung inventors"

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