AMHS is now in its 60th year
2024 Lectures
(Click on heading above)
Thursday 2 May 2024 at 7pm
Two lectures
Leprosy in New Zealand
To be presented by
Ben Kingsbury
100 Years of Insulin
To be presented by
Tim Cundy
Special Interest Talk at 6.15 pm
TBC
All welcome,no bookings required, free
Meeting 14 March 2024
Click on heading above to see presenations (Photos JM)
From right: Poul Nielsen, Neil Anderson with Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Cris Print
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New biography
Jock Caughey: Physician and Humanitarian
Neil Anderson
2023 Mary Egan Publishing
Click on book title for information & how to obtain a copy.
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Anniversary of Cornwall Hospital
(Photos JM): Heritage Day 24 February 2024 -commemorating Cornwall Hospital. (Right: small group of those present born at Cornwall Hospital)
The 39th General Hospital was built by Fletcher Construction for the US Army in Cornwall Park in 1943, In 1945 the 1000 bed/ 48 ward hospital was vacated by the Americans. The 123 pre-fabricated buildings were then taken over by the Auckland Hospital Board to establish Cornwall Hospital, the Obstetric & Gynaecological Unit (renamed National Women's Hospital in 1955) and the Cornwall Park Geriatric Hospital. See links:
Cornwall Park - for their latest information. Also Eventfinda & Facebook
History of Cornwall Park Hospital by James Newman
39th US General Hospital, Auckland WW2. 2015 Dr Pat Clarkson
Celebrating our past - a timeline of historical links with Cornwall Hospital
The Yankee Hospital: the 39th General Army Hospital.
(Isabella Wensley, Auckland History Initiative.)
Cornwall Park c. 1943 (File photo)
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2023 Highlights
Thanks to all our presenters who contributed to a lively and very successful 2023 Lecture Series. We especially thank those who have contibuted to our Special Interest Talks.
Selected Archives (from 2021)
Click on headings for links
Final meeting November 2023 (Photos JM)
Left: Cardiac pacing, William Bowman & Jerusalem: Ross Blair
Centre: The Founders' Lecture- Sir William Liley: Peter Stone
Right: Special Interest Talk- stories of heart valves: Alan Kerr
Meeting 7 September 2023 (All photos JM)
Left: David Black with Neil Anderson. Right George Foote
Centre: Some of the 76 people in the audience
Special interest talk: Thomas Moore Philson (presented by Iain Wakefield)
Below: Asst. Surgeon Thomas Philson's trunk, 58th Rutlandshire Regiment. (EMDL Collection)
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AMHS Student Essay prize winner (2022*)
Danielle van Dalen
Smallpox in 19th century New Zealand.
Click on heading for link to essay. * 2023 winner TBC
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Auckland Medical History Society
See Ingenio Spring 2021 Alumni
Scroll down to p.32
(Courtesy University of Auckland)
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July 2023 Student presentations. (Photos JM)
Megan Kuan - History of the Anti- Vaccine Movement,
Claudia Hall - A History of Lobotomy
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Thanks to those who support & continue to donate either online or via a koha at meetings. (We now have a paywave device to accept EFTpos donations.)
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A new Health Museum for Aotearoa New Zealand entirely in a digital space
See Our Health Journeys
2022 Visitors from Auckland Museum viewing some of the books in EMDL collection with Victoria Bell, EMDL librarian (centre) (Photo JM)
New Zealand WW1 Medical Practitioners
Collaborating with the Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph team, Dr Pat Clarkson has compiled a record of more than 500 New Zealand doctors who served in WW1.
NZ Doctors WW1 or Auckland Museum
Click on heading above, then search icon (screen top right)
enter NZ Doctors WW1
New Zealand WW1 Nurses
Auckland Hospital nurse Charlotte (Lottie) Le Gallais was one 10 nurses selected to serve on the first voyage of the New Zealand hospital ship Maheno in July 1915. Five hundred and fifty New Zealand registered nurses served overseas with the New Zealand Army Nursing Service (NZANS).