2025 LECTURE PROGRAMME
5 March, 7 May, 2 July, 3 September, 5 November
Wednesday 7th May at 7pm
Lectures
The medical history of Nitrous Oxide
To be presented by Shilpan Patel
The James Newman Lecture
History of Cataract Surgery
To be presented by Charles McGhee
(Click on headings for details)
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2024 HIGHLIGHTS
President's Report Programme AMHS Medical History Prize
MEETINGS
5 March 2025
From left: Dr Philson presented by Iain Wakefield; Dr Thomas Moore Philson's trunk displayed at EMDL; Vasalius -the origin of modern anatomy presented by Ali Mirajalili. (Photos JM)
7 November 2024
The Plan is the Plan. Failure is not an option
Sir Ashley Bloomfield
5 September 2024
Farewell presentation for
Juliet Hawkins, long time Curator of the EMDL - Juliet with Neil Anderson
Click on & scroll through photos below
From left: Rod Ellis Pegler (Photo C Ducobu), Brian McAvoy
From left: Ricky Shen, Nadia Turner. A record ~100 attendees (Photo C Ducubo)
4 July 2024
Left: Neil Anderson with presenters - Ngaire Kerse, Ted Richards, Megan McPherson, Karan Govindpani, Jessica Parr
2 May 2024
John Collins; Neil Anderson with Ben Kingsbury; Neil Anderson with Tim Cundy
14 March 2024
Left: Neil Anderson with Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Cris Print, Poul Nielsen
AMHS MEDICAL HISTORY PRIZE WINNERS
Click on Archives to read essays /see names of previous prize winners
July 2023 Student presentations. (Photos JM)
Megan Kuan - History of the Anti- Vaccine Movement,
Claudia Hall - A History of Lobotomy
DONATIONS NEEDED
Meetings are free but we rely on donations to support the Society. Please consider making a donation. See donations page. Online donations preferred.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Douglas Jolly. Mark Derby
(2024 Massey University Press)
Jock Caughey: Physician and Humanitarian .Neil Anderson
2023 Mary Egan Publishing
The Best Country to GIve Birth?
Midwifery, Homebirth and the Politics of Maternity in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1970–2022.
Linda Bryder (2023 Auckland University Press)
Click on respective book titles for details
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A new national e-museum
An online platform for the sharing and collecting of stories
OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS
A special talk by Dr George Chan Tuesday 8 April @ 5.30pm
Exploring the biology of blood and the creatures that crave it....
At Auckland Museum. Exhibition on loan from the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
See Auckland Museum
Professional Development Day: Diverse Forms of Historical Narration
Wellington 19 July 2025
See Information
Australia New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine conference, Sydney 8-15 July 2025
Health History in the Making
See 2025 ANZSHM
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New Zealand WW1 Medical Practitioners
Dr Pat Clarkson in collaboration with the Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph team has compiled a record of more than 500 New Zealand doctors who served in WW1.
NZ Doctors WW1 or Auckland Museum
Click on link 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; 550 New Zealand registered nurses served overseas with the New Zealand Army Nursing Service (NZANS).
See Auckland Museum then on "Search" (top right screen) - enter "NZ Nurses WW1"
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Left: Lottie Le Gallais (Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph); New Zealand Medical Services (National Library): WW1 Operating Theatre, 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst (Auckland Museum); NZANS 10 nurses drowned on torpedoed ship Marquette 1915 along with 22 other NZrs. (Auckland Museum Hall of Memories - JM);Dental Corp (Auckland Museum); 2 NZ General Hospital, Walton on T hames. (file photo): Nurses drowned on the Marquette. (RNZ file)
Below: Hospital ship Maheno with signatures of the New Zealand Medical Corps (NZMC) and nurses (NZANS) on board. (Photo EMDL collection)
The Ernest & Marion Davis Library
"Medical Memorabilia-an intriguing library & museum"
Coats of Arms presented to the EMDL (Universities & Medical Colleges). EMDL collection
Left: 2024 Helen Taber
Right: 2022 Visitors from Auckland Museum with librarian Victoria Bell, (centre) (Photos JM)
Early Medical Women of New Zealand
Stories from graduates 1896-1967
Emily Hancock Seidberg-McKinnon (1872-1968), first woman medical graduate from NZ (1896) followed by Margaret Cruikshank (1897)-statue Waimate errected 1922
Stories of >130 remarkable women, click on heading above. (Photos courtesy Early Medical Women of NZ website) * Enquiries: c.farquhar@auckland.ac.nz
80th Anniversary of Cornwall Hospital
Heritage Day 24 February 2024 Commemorating Cornwall Hospital. Peter Stone & Judy Murphy. A small group of visitors born at Cornwall Hospital. (Photos JM)
The 39th General Hospital, 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; 23 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 opened in 1955). See links to:
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History of Cornwall Park Hospital by James Newman
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39th US General Hospital, Auckland WW2. 2015 Dr Pat Clarkson
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Celebrating our past - a timeline of historical links with Cornwall Hospital
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The Yankee Hospital: the 39th General Army Hospital.
(Isabella Wensley, Auckland History Initiative.)
Cornwall Park c. 1943 (File photo)
Below: July 2023 James Newman Lecture. Bring Back the Cane presented by John Cullen. Photo with AMHS president Neil Anderson. (Photos JM)
Special Interest talk- with curator Juliet Hawkins, veiwing the contents of the c.1880 Homeopathic Medicine Chest (Photo JM)
