2025 LECTURES   

5 March, 7 May, 2 July, 3 September, 5 November

Programme 

NEXT MEETING 

Wednesday 5th March at 7pm

Dr Philson 

To be presented by Iain Wakefield

2024 HIGHLIGHTS  

                                            President's Report     Programme & presenters     AMHS Medical History Prize

    (Click on headings for links)

2024 Meetings

See 2024 Programme for abstracts & biographies. (All photos JM)  
Meeting 7 November 2024
The Plan is the Plan. Failure is not an option 
Sir Ashley Bloomfield 

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Meeting 5 September 2024 

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 Farewell presentation for
Juliet Hawkins, long time Curator of the EMDL - Juliet with Neil Anderson 

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From left: Rod Ellis Pegler (Photo C Ducobu), Brian McAvoy 

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From left: Ricky Shen, Nadia Turner.    A record ~100 attendees (Photo C Ducubo) 
Meeting 4 July 2024 

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From top left: Neil Anderson with presenters - Ngaire Kerse, Ted Richards, Megan McPherson, Karan Govindpani, Jessica Parr 
Meeting 2 May 2024 

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John Collins; Neil Anderson with Ben Kingsbury; Neil Anderson with Tim Cundy  
Meeting 14 March 2024 

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From left: Poul Nielsen, Neil Anderson with Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Cris Print   

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AMHS MEDICAL HISTORY PRIZE WINNERS 

2024 Friederike Voit

  Click on Archives to read essays /see names of previous prize winners 

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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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RECENT PUBLICATIONS  

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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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Our Health Journeys

A new national e-museum

An online platform for the sharing and collecting of stories 

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"Exploring the biology of blood and the creatures that crave it...." 

 Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches

A visiting exhibition at Auckland Museum: opens 14 December- 27 April 2025. Produced by the Royal Ontario Museum,Toronto.  

More information click on Auckland Museum (Whats on- Special exhibition)

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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

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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).  

Click on  Auckland Museum link, then on "Search"  (top right screen) - enter "NZ Nurses WW1" 
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From 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) Corp (Auckland Museum); 2 NZ General Hospital, Walton on Thames. (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) 
Hospital ship Maheno

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The Ernest & Marion Davis Library 

"Medical Memorabilia-an intriguing library & museum" 

Interview with Neil Anderson. 
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(Courtesy University of Auckland)
Coats of Arms presented to the EMDL (Universities & Medical Colleges).  EMDL collection
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Middle: 2024 Helen Taber 
Right: 2022 Visitors from Auckland Museum with librarian Victoria Bell,  (centre) (Photos JM)  

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Early Medical Women of New Zealand

Stories from graduates 1896-1967

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Centre: Emily Hancock Seidberg-McKinnon (1872-1968), first woman medical graduate from New Zealand (1896) followed by Margaret Cruikshank (1897)-statue at Waimate errected 1922
To read the stories of  >130 remarkable women, click on heading above. (Photos courtesy Early Medical Women of NZ website) *  Enquiries or more infomation contact: c.farquhar@auckland.ac.nz

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80th Anniversary of Cornwall Hospital

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(Photos  JM): Heritage Day 24 February 2024 Commemorating Cornwall Hospital. Peter Stone & Judy Murphy. Below: a small group who were 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.  Click on links to: 
                      (Isabella Wensley, Auckland History Initiative.)

39th General Hospital

 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)