South Australian Medical Heritage Society Inc

Gallery of notable medical individuals
in South Australia

South Australia has a rich history of strong personalities who pioneered medicine and surgery from the mid nineteenth century. Others followed who made contributions of world-wide significance in fields as diverse as radio communication for patient care, flying ambulances and radiology.

The colony of free settlers provided a society which encouraged pioneers in pharmaceuticals and many other medically related fields.

Individuals represented in the Society's collection comprise:

• Angove, William Thomas [medical practitioner]
• Begg, Prof. Percy Raymond
• Blackburn, Sir Charles Bickerton
• Both, Edward Thomas & Donald [Inventors, designers of cardiograph and of Iron Lung at Jamestown and Netley]
• Bragg, Sir William and Sir Lawrence [earliest x-rays in South Australia - Bragg-Rhumkorff coil]
• Bragg, William and Lawrence [physicists, x-ray crystallography]
• Brown, Gilbert [surgeon] and the Boonah Tragedy
• Byrne, Alfred Dudley [gynaecologist, soldier and sportsman]
• Chapple, Dr. Phoebe [war hero, feminist, outstanding doctor and pioneer]
• Chadwick, Allan [bush pilot]
• Cilento, Sir Raphael (Ray) West [medical practitioner, public servant]
• Cox, Prof. Lloyd Woodrow [obstetrician and gynaecolgist, IVF]
• Faulding, Francis Hardy [also in Medicine > drugs and X-rays]
• Fenner, Frank [virologist]
• Fisher, Ronald Aylmer [statistician]
• Flynn, Myles
• Fraenkel, Gus J [surgeon and medical educator]
• Goodchild, John Charles and the role of stretcher bearers
• Goodchild, John Charles World War 2 artist
• Graham, Margaret [nurse]
• Hicks, Sir Stanton [the WW2 army field cooker]
• Jepson, Richard Pomfret [surgeon]
• Jones & Partners [radiologists]
• Last family - Ray, John and Peter
• Last, Dr Raymond Jack
• Lindon, Leonard Charles Edward [surgeon]
• Lewis, Aubrey [psychiatrist]
• Lewis, Aubrey [psychiatrist] ["Who was Aubrey Lewis"]
• Maddern, John Pearce [urologist]
• Magarey, Sir Rupert [surgeon]
• Magarey, Rupert James (Bob) and the Kokoda Trail [surgeon]
• Mawson, Sir Douglas
• Mawson, Sir Douglas's Medical Kit [antarctic explorer, geologist]
• Mawson, Sir Douglas and the Far East Antarctic Journey 1911/1914
• McKay, Gordon [surgeon]
• Miller, Justin Herbert [vascular surgeon]
• Newland, Sir Henry [surgeon]
• Nichterlein, Otto Erhardt [tuberculosis specialist, linguist]
• Opit, Louis [surgeon, biochemist, mathematician]
• Puddy, Elizabeth [medical practitioner & educator]
• Robertson, Thorburn Brailsford [biochemist, early insulin researcher]
• Rogers, Richard Sanders [medical practitioner & orchidologist]
• Rowley, Derrick [immunologist]
• SA Nobel Laureates
• Slavotinek, Tony [Surgeon, SAMHS Patron]
• Swann, Charles [ophthalmologist - Rubella and eye disease]
• Tassie, Gemmel OAM [medical practitioner]
• Traeger, Alfred Herman [Flying Doctor radio (RFDS)]
• Wiles, James Fletcher [the WW2 army field cooker]
• Wangel, Prof. Anders Gustaf [immunologist, haematologist, gastroenterologist]
• Watson, Prof. Archibald [surgeon]

Links to other websites about notable individuals associated with South Australia's medical heritage:

• Cleland, Sir John Burton (1878-1971), Professor of Pathology at the University of Adelaide

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