South Australian Medical Heritage Society
Society Website & Virtual Museum

Iron lung - polio epidemic

Headache powders which damaged kidneys

Basylist


Kidney biopsy

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Träger pedal radio

Faulding's Solyptol

A trephined neolithic skull

Hand X-ray by William Bragg, 1886

Calvary Hospital, 1906

Upcoming Meetings:

June 27^th, 2019

The next meeting of the SAMHS will be held on Thursday, 27^th of June at the Royal Society Rooms, Kintore Ave, Adelaide at 5:30 pm.

Our speaker this month is Professor Sandy McFarlane from the University of Adelaide, where he is the Director of The Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies.
His particular specialty is the effects of traumatic stress; Prof. McFarlane is an international expert in the field of the impact of disasters and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Prof. Sandy McFarlane - "From Moral Inferiority to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder"

Members and guests are welcome.

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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