South Australian Medical Heritage Society Inc
Website for the Virtual Museum
Home
Coming meetings
Past meetings
About the Society
Main Galleries
Medicine
Surgery
Anaesthesia
X-rays
Hospitals,other organisations
Individuals of note
Small Galleries
Ethnic medicine
- Aboriginal
- Chinese
- Mediterran
Past meetings
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Venue |
| 2023 | Feb 23 | Prof. Tom Gordon | A rogue antibody and the mystery behind clotting disorders in Covid vaccination | Royal Society Rooms |
| 2022 | Dec 9 | Susie Herzberg AM | Building the Overland Telegraph Line 1870-1872, a 21st Century Perspective | Living Choice Retirement Centre |
| Nov 24 | Prof. John Crompton AM | Dr David Crompton AO and His Battle to Ensure All Eye Drops Are Sterile | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Oct 27 | Dr Jacqueline Jepson | Professor R. P. Jepson | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Sept 22 | Dr Graham Ellender | Wine and Medicine in Australia | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Aug 25 | Dr James Muecke AM | Blinded - The Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jul 28 | A/Prof. Steve Milanese | The History Of Manual Therapy And Adelaide's Unique Role | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jun 23 | Prof. Rob Norman | History and aspects of the development of IVF | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 26 | - | No meeting | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Apr 28 | Dr Sam Costello | An Historical Perspective Of The Gut Microbiota | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Mar 24 | Professor Michael Horowitz | The incretin effect - backwards and forwards | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Feb 24 | Professor Paul Sendziuk | Australia's Response to HIV/AIDS | Royal Society Rooms | |
| 2021 | Dec 10 | Professor Glenn McCulloch | The Origins of Neurosurgery in South Australia | Living Choice Retirement Village |
| Nov 25 | Professor Peter Roberts-Thomson | Books, Libraries and a Physician's Private Collection (with a medical emphasis) | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Oct 28 | Professor Philip Payton | Repatriation During and After WW1 | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Sept 23 | Mrs Maggi Boult | Epilepsy in the South Australian Lunatic Asylums | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Aug 26 | Dr James Muecke AM | Blinded | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jul 22 | - | No meeting | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jun 24 | Prof. Caroline McMillen AO | The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 27 | Dr Jim Tulloch AM | 45 years of International Public Health | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Apr 22 | Associate Professor Robert Bauze | Bonesetting, Barossa Valley & early South Australian Orthopaedics | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Mar 25 | Associate Professor Ross Haslam | Neonatology - Lessons Learned from Conception to Adult Life | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Feb 25 | Dr Roy Scragg AM OBE | Sailors, Christianity, Florey; The Pandemics: Gonococcal, Human, Coronavirus | Royal Society Rooms | |
| 2020 | Dec 11 | Associate Professor Susan Neuhaus | A Stretcher on the Somme ... A South Australian Story | Royal Society Rooms |
| Nov 26 | - | No meeting | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Oct 22 | Professor Margaret Davy, AM | Gynaecological Oncology | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Sep 24 | Professor Guy Maddern, AO | Hospital vs University: 125 years on, has anything changed? | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Aug 27 | - | No meeting. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jul 23 | - | No meeting. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jun 25 | - | No meeting. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 28 | - | No meeting. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Apr 23 | - | No meeting. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Mar 26 | - | No meeting. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Feb 27 | Emeritus Professor Alastair MacLennan, AO | "Advances in reproduction over 200 years, as illustrated by the British and Australian Royal families: from Princess Charlotte to Queen Camilla" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| 2019 | Dec 19 | Dr Tom Turner | "Peripatetic perambulation: Wistful wandering through the wilderness of AMA (SA) History" | Royal Society Rooms |
| Nov 28 | Prof. Gary Wittert | "The obesity & chronic disease epidemic of the 21st century: Why haven't we learned a lesson from scurvy?" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Oct 24 | Dr. Pauline Payne | "Century Adelaide Botanic Gardens & Health Of South Australians" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Sep 26 | Prof. Christopher Burrell | "100th Anniversary of "Spanish flu", the 1918-19 influenza pandemic" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Aug 22 | Dr Fred Gilligan | "Hazards, Horses, and Helicopters" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jul 25 | Prof. Eric Gowans | "The history of vaccines - an Australian perspective" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jun 27 | Prof. Sandy McFarlane | "From Moral Inferiority to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 23 | Dr Clive Pay | "The remarkable Both brothers: unsung inventors" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Apr 25 | - | No meeting | ||
| Mar 28 | Dr Tony Swain | "Painless Surgery: The evolution of anaesthesia in SA and beyond" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Feb 28 | Dr Emma McEwin | "Nancy Atkinson OBE: pioneer bacteriologist at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science & University of Adelaide" | National Council of Women | |
| 2018 | Dec 7 | Dr Robert Foreman | "Vascular Surgery" | National Council of Women |
| Nov 22 | Prof. Peter Reilly | "Neurosurgery in Developing Nations" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Oct 25 | Dr Peter Byrne | "History of General Burston and some outstanding WWII Australian Military Medical Officers" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Sep 27 | Prof. Max Kamien | "The Francis Hardey Faulding Research Memorial Prize for research in Australian General Practice, 1964-1999: a South Australian initiative" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Aug 23 | Dr. Brian Brophy | "Douglas Mawson and the far east Antarctic journey, 1911-1914" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jul 26 | Dr Chris Lease | "History, influence & impact of Environmental Science on Health" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jun 28 | Dr Janet Scott | "From Hieroglyphics to CADCAM" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 24 | Mr David Buob | "Myles Flynn: A criminal, lunatic & alcoholic who unknowingly changed SA for the better" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Apr 26 | Dr Graeme McLeay | "The History and Influence of Climate Change on Health" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Mar 22 | Prof Annette Summers | "Blood, Sweat and Fears I & II: Researching the military service of South Australian Medical Practitioners 1914-1918 & 1945-1975" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Feb 22 | Dr Peter Kreminski | "Otto Nichterlein MA MD, polymath: athlete, musician, horticulturalist, linguist and lecturer in English literature" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| 2017 | Nov 23 | Dr Jeff Nicholas | Behind the streets of Adelaide | National Council of Women |
| Nov 23 | Helen Stagg | "Medical care: Harnessing the River Muray" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Oct 26 | Dr. Peter Last | "Architectural follies of the old RAH: 1920-60" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Sept 28 | Emeritus Professor Alastair MacLennan | "Cerebral Palsy: From Changling babies and Witches, through "Birth Asphyxia" and lawyers, to the lottery of genetic variation" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Aug 24 | Professor Kaye Roberts-Thomson | "History and relevance of water fluoridation" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jul 27 | Professor Grant Townsend | "Teeth and faces of twins" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jun 22 | Mr. Jeff Seidel | "Mosquitoes" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 25 | Dr John Crowhurst | "The Legacy of the Anaesthesia Events at Pearl Harbor, 7th December, 1941" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Apr 27 | Dr David Close | "Robert Henry Pulleine, 1869-1935: Naturalist, Ornithologist, Botanist, Entomologist, Anthropologist, Otolaryngologist" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Mar 23 | Dr Janet Scarfe | "Puss Campbell's Great Adventure: WWII diaries & photos of a South Australian army nurse" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Feb 23 | Prof. Ian Roberts-Thomson | "History of peptic ulceration" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| 2016 | Nov 24 | Emeritus Professor Max Kamien | "Dr Count Lippay" | Royal Society Rooms |
| Oct 27 | Dr Andris Dārziņš | "Intruders or Colleagues? Latvian Medicos in SA" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Sep 22 | Dr Caroline Adams and Ms Kathy Devonshire-Gill | "Nothing New Under the Sun" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Aug 25 | Dr Leo Mahar | "The Development of Interventional Cardiology" | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jul 28 | Dr Robert Goldney | Who was Aubrey Lewis? | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jun 23 | Dr Tony Slavotinek | Sir James Rupert Magarey and the Kakoda Trail | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 26 | Adj A/Prof James Hawkins AM | Damn the Dardanelles | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Apr 28 | Mr Robert George | 100th anniversary: Braggs' Nobel Prize | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Mar 24 | Dr John Brydon | Resmed & Sleep Apnoea - A medical industry success story | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Feb 25 | Dr Tony Swain | Sir Raphael West Cilento MD LLB: Soldier, Medical researcher, and Administrator | Royal Society Rooms | |
| 2015 | Dec 11 | Dr Peter Psaltis | Overview of research at SAHMRI | Royal Society Rooms |
| Nov 26 | Joy Copland | Hepatitis C in South Australia: Twenty Years of Surveillance. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Oct 22 | Dr Roy Scragg | Florey's Flood - Antibiotics and Population. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Sep 24 | Dr Caroline Adams | World War 1 Nurses — Not the ANZAC Girls. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Aug 27 | Dr Joe Verco | The Role of the Verco Family in the History of Medicine in SA. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jul 23 | Dr. David Thomas | The History of the Introduction of Laboratory Automation in SA. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jun 25 | Prof Glyn Jamieson | The Weird and Wacky in Medicine - A Thing of the Past. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 28 | Dr Greg Otto | History and Development of Laparoscopic Surgery | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Apr 23 | Dr. Tony Slavotinek | From Herophilus to Langerhans to Banting — Early Anatomy and Physiology of the Pancreas | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Mar 26 | Dr David Grove | Two Tales of Tapeworm. Lice and Prions - A Compendium of Unpleasant Disease. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Feb 26 | Dr. Brendon Coventry | Therapies for Advanced Cancer: The Story of History Repeating Itself | Royal Society Rooms | |
| 2014 | Dec 11 | Dr. John Setchell | Early Days of the Royal Flying Doctors Service | Aviation Museum, Port Adelaide |
| Nov 27 | Ossie Petrucco | A Migrant Experience from Bonagila to IVF | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Oct 23 | Dr. Chris Hughes | Medical Eponyms | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Sep 25 | Prof. Peter Roberts-Thomson | Tasmanian Aborigines: The Effect of Introduced Disease on Depopulation | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Aug 28 | Prof. Donald Simpson | Hugh Cairns | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jul 24 | Prof. David David | Craniofacial Unit | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jun 26 | Dr Colin Twelftree | Vietnam: 1957 and 2007 | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 22 | Joy Copland | Lessons Learnt from the First Crimean War | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Apr 24 | Mr. David Buob | SA Nobel Prize Winners | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Mar 27 | Dr. Tony Slavotinek | Gus Frankel | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Feb 27 | Anthony and Robin Radford | The Great Chinchona Robbery | Royal Society Rooms | |
| 2013 | Dec 12 | Lindl Lorton | Life and Death Under Sail | Maritime Museum, Port Adelaide |
| Nov 28 | Dr Toby Coates | Renal Transplantation | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Oct 24 | Dr. Roy Scragg | Columbus, Windies and the British Disease | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Sep 26 | Dr. Anne Hamilton-Bruce | Neurophysiology | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Aug 22 | Dr. Joan Durdin | The Great Matron Dispute | Royal Society Rooms | |
| July 25 | Mr. David Buob and Joy Copland | The Torrens Island Quarantine Station | Royal Society Rooms | |
| June 27 | Dr. Tony Slavotinek | A Virtual Museum Update; Professor Archie Watson, and Early Microscopes Found In SA | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 23 | Dr. Anthony Radford | Kuru | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Feb 28 | Dr. Lothar Hoff | Parkside Mental Hospital, 1954 to 1963 | Royal Society Rooms | |
| 2012 | Dec 7 | Dr. Ross Philpot | Medical Matters and Sherlock Holmes | NCW House |
| Nov 22 | Dr. Toby McLeay | Memories of working with Aboriginal communities in SA and the NT. | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Oct 25 | Dr. Martin Copland | Medicine Twixt Man and Animals | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Sept 27 | Prof. Chris Doecke | The History of Pharmacy at the Royal Adelaide Hospital | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Aug 23 | Dr. John Smith | Antarctic Medicine | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jul 26 | Prof Wayne Sampson | Dr Begg - Father of Orthodontics - The Man Behind the Smile on Teenage Faces | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Jun 28 | Dr Brian Fotheringham | A Walk Through the WACH | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 24 | Prof Peter Roberts-Thomson | 200 Years of Rheumatology in SA | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Apr 26 | Dr Tony Slavotinek Prof Donald Simpson |
Professor Gus Fraenkel - Founder of Flinders Medical Centre Listerian Principles in the Management of Brain Abscess |
Royal Society Rooms | |
| Mar 22 | Dr Bill Lawson | The Talented Dr. Richard S. Rogers (1861-1942.) | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Feb 23 | Joy Copland | Frank Fenner - Virologist | Royal Society Rooms | |
| 2011 | Dec 15 | Dr Carol Fort | William Wyatt - Medical Pioneer SA | Science Exchange |
| Nov 24 | Dr Chris Hughes | 50 Years of Medical Memories | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Oct 27 | Mr David Buob | History of the Glenside Hospital | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Sept 22 | Dr Audrey Kent | The Leeds Public Dispensary, 1824-1887 | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Aug 25 | Dr Ral Antic | History of TB in Australia | Royal Society Rooms | |
| July 28 | Mr. Robert Laidlaw | Dr. William Home Popham GP, Gawler, 1850 | Royal Society Rooms | |
| June 23 | Dr. John McIntyre |
50 Years of Change in Dentistry | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 26 | Dr. John Rice |
The History and Development of the Bionic Ear | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Apr 28 | Dr Donald Beard | Three Members of a Family in World War I | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Apr 28 | Prof Donald Simpson | The Achievements of Leonard Lindon | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Mar 24 | Dr Tony Slavotinek | RP Jepson: Foundation Professor of Surgery | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Mar 24 | Dr Michael Patkin | The SAMHS website and Virtual Gallery | Royal Society Rooms | |
| Feb 24 | Dr Robert Cooter | Ceduna Health Services | Royal Society Rooms | |
| 2010 | Nov 18 | Prof. Donald Simpson | The Pineal Gland - Confusion and Error | Royal Society Rooms |
| Oct 28 | Dr. Sven Kuusk | Visit to SA Military Museum | Keswick Military Museum | |
| Sept 23 | Dr. Chris Verco | First Stationary Military Hospital on Lemnos | Royal Society Rooms | |
| July 22 | Dr. Tony Slavotinek and Dr. Michael Patkin | SAMHS Website and Virtual Museum | The Queen Elizabeth Hospital | |
| June 17 | Prof. Maciej Henneberg | Ancient Medicine Findings from the Pompeii Archeological Site | Royal Society Rooms | |
| May 20 | Fiona Khor | History of Chemotherapy and Development of Oncology Drugs | The Queen Elizabeth Hospital | |
| Apr 22 | Dr. Joan Durdin |
History of Nursing in SA | The Queen Elizabeth Hospital | |
| Mar 18 | Prof. Suzanne Miller, Director, SA Museum. |
Creating Collections | The Queen Elizabeth Hospital | |
| Feb 18 | Dr Colin Moore, ophthalmologist | Cataract surgery in my professional lifetime | ||
| 2009 | Sep 17 | Dr Robert Cooter, retired General Practitioner.
|
“Dr. Phoebe Chapple –Her Life Story”. This remarkable woman served in front-line trenches providing medical services in World War One, was awarded the Military Medal, and returned to a full medical life in Adelaide. |
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital |
| Sep 17 | General meeting of the Society - report | |||
| May 27 | History Week, presented by the History Societies of hospitals in Adelaide and a number of individual members of the SAMHA | (in conjunction with Society of History of Ideas, Technology and Science) | Staff dining room Glenside Campus | |
| Apr 30 | Prof Wayne Sampson Head of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, Curator of the PR Begg Museum | History of Dentistry in South Australia – early days | ||
Feb 26 |
Prof Bob Goldney Professor and Head of Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide |
Glenside Hospital: an historical perspective including its role in the treatment of Depression |
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital |
| 2008 | August 28 |
Robert George (President of ISRRT) |
"The Role of the Braggs in develop- ment of x-rays in South Australia and the Royal Institution" |
Hayward Room Public Schools Club (Bragg House) 207 East Terrace, Adelaide (city) |
July 21 |
(1) Ms Linda Wurfel |
"The Dust Museum in Amsterdam' |
Board Room of the Womens and Childrens Hospital |
|
ditto |
(2) Dr. Michael Patkin
|
ditto |
| June 10 | Alvis Jaunzems | "Light & Electron Microscopy, History & Advances"
|
Histopathology Dept. Adelaide Childrens' Hospital
|
May 21 |
History Week Exhibition
|
(in conjunction with Society of History of Ideas, Technology and Science) |
|
March 27 |
Dr Robert Cooter |
"Air Doctors of South Australia ( Bush Church Aid Port Augusta and BCA Ceduna Society) RFDS' |
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital |
[add] |
Donald Beard FRACS |
|
| 2007 | Dec 7
|
Dr Toby Coates |
"Renal Dialysis and Transplants early days and present" |
Calvary Hospital
|
Aug 14 |
Dr Thomas Stevenson |
"History of Orthopaedic Surgery in South Australia" |
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
|
July 19 |
Dr Peter Last |
"Repatriation Hospitals" |
Repatriation Hospital - Daws Road, Daw Park |
May 23 |
History Week Display |
"Then & now in Medicine" |
Glenside Campus |
Feb 27 |
Dr Richard Brock |
"The Life & achievements of Howard Florey" |
The Florey Clinic, 3 Pulsford Road, Prospect |
Jan 22 |
Dr Brian Fotheringham |
Heraldry of the Coat of Arms of the Adelaide Childrens' Hospital" |
Mr Graham Truman (host) at Samual Way Building, Women & Childrens' Hospital |
| 2006 | Nov 21 |
Dr Robert Cooter |
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia - 149, Greenhill Road, Unley |
July 17 |
Mr Paul McLarkin |
Calvary Hospital |
| 2005 | Sep | Dr. W.R. Fuller | A History of General Anaesthesia - the first 100 Years |
-o0o-