Programme

2002 - 2010 programme

4 April 2002 : Lindsay Haas

The Two Charcots

4 April 2002 : David McHaffie

Using a scanner

2 May 2002 : Ron Easthope

Web applications for the Society

6 June 2002 : Mark Davis

William Osler

6 June 2002 : Don Urquhart-Hay

Medical VCs

4 July 2002 : Sir Randall Elliot

The Boat Voyages of the Whaleship "Essex"

1 August 2002 : Susi Williams

Agnes Bennett

5 September 2002 : Linda Watt

Hokianga icon - Dr Jock Smith

3 October 2002 : Jeff Weston

The life of Dr Montgomery Spencer

7 November 2002 : Julian Crane

Charles Blackley - nasal visionary

5 February 2003: Ron Easthope

You have got to start somewhere - stories behind early heart surgery in Wellington

5 March 2003: Pamela Wood

Annie's Room - Sources and Resources

5 March 2003: Wyn Beasley

Kipling - the College and the Critics

2 April 2003 : Susi Williams

Medical Registration in New Zealand and the Admission of Foreign Doctors 1849 - 1949

7 May 2003 : Lady Jocelyn Keith and Ron Mackenzie

There must be something in the water

4 June 2003 : Alan Thurston

Dupuytren's Disease and Cooper's Contracture

4 June 2003 : Richard Stone

A medical tale linking Wanganui, Edinburgh, Wellington and Dunedin
( the Edinburgh Anatomical Scandal of 1828 )

2 July 2003 : Ron Easthope

Thomas Wakley - Battling Surgeon

6 August 2003 : Sir Randall Elliot

A film of the RNZAMC in North Africa and Greece 1941-1945

3 September 2003 : Wyn Beasley

Art and Amputation

The ABC's of Medical Book Writing and Publishing

1 October 2003 : Don Urquhart-Hay

Sir George Buckston Browne - Urologist, Philanthropist, Gentleman

5 November 2003 : Ron Easthope

A story of high turnover and high drama
- salaried medical staff Wellington Hospital 1881 - 1900

4 February 2004: David McHaffie

Fatal Heresy and the Discovery of the Pulmonary Circulation

3 March 2004 : Ron Easthope

A century ago in Wellington
Medical Tales of Painting, Politics and the Painfully-paralysed Prisoner

7 July 2004 : Wyn Beasley

The Hand in Benediction - Experience with the Light Touch Prosthesis

7 July 2004 : Lady Jocelyn Keith and Ron Mackenzie

Men, Morals and Microbes - Man's inhumanity to Man

1 September 2004 : Bede Squire

The University of Bologna : It's History and it's Scholars

8 October 2004 : Robin Scoular

The History of Cremation

3 November 2004 : Richard Stone

A Review of some Early Admissions to Porirua Hospital

1 December 2004: Lou Costello

A Glimpse of the History of Midwifery

2 February 2005: Ron Easthope

Mostly Murder (well, hardly any at all, really)
the life story of a great medical detective

2 March 2005 : Archie Kerr

Medical History of Turkey

6 April 2005 : David McHaffie

Flexner - the Ranked Outsider in Medical Education

4 May 2005 : Ron Easthope

Remembering Dr Verney Cable : 1908-2005

1 June 2005 : Wyn Beasley

Churchill : A Medical History

8 July 2005 : Archie Kerr

Muslim Influence in Medical History

3 August 2005 : Lady Jocelyn Keith

The Dynamic Duo - No, not Batman and Robin -
Florence Nightingale and Henry Dunant

3 August 2005 : Don Beswick

Development of chemical warfare in Australasia in WWII

7 September 2005 : Natasha Naus and Kerryn Pollock

A Virtual Tour of Te Aro's Medical History
a work in progress

5 October 2005 : Wyn Beasley

Nelson : a bicentennial account

2 November 2005 : Peter Turner

Psychophysics and eye disorders through the eyes of the ancients

1 February 2006: Ron Easthope

Early Private Hospitals in Wellington and some of the Remarkable Nurses who ran them

1 March 2006 : David McHaffie

Nicholas Culpeper - Herbalist. (Savoury weed or pricking thorn?)

5 April 2006 : Archie Kerr

What Doctors Do In Their Spare Time
(Some Early Medics and Medicine)

3 May 2006 : Peter Martin

The White Plague ; Tuberculosis and its Place in History

7 June 2006 : Wyn Beasley

Pillars of Surgery - Looking at three Royal Colleges

5 July 2006 : Ron Easthope

Wellington Hospital - the early years
Celebrating 125 years in Newtown

2 August 2006 : Peter Leslie

History of the Council of Medical Colleges

6 September 2006 : David McHaffie

The Medical World of Benjamin Franklin

4 April 2007 : Roger Ridley-Smith

Military Medicine and Military Psychiatry in the First World War

2 May 2007 : Ron Easthope

Potions, premises and personalities
- some musings on Pharmacies and Pharmacists in early Wellington

6 June 2007 : Alan Thurston

A History of the Control of Sepsis

4 July 2007 : Hugh Williams

Casanova and the Spitfire Pilots
- a DVD written and presented by Hugh Williams of Moorfields Eye Hospital

1 August 2007 : Harvey Brown

Pickerill : Pioneer in Plastic Surgery, Dental Education and Dental Research

5 September 2007 : David McHaffie

Avicenna and Abulcasis - Islamic Medicine in the Golden Age

3 October 2007 : Wyn Beasley

Surviving Scurvy : The Life and Times of Edward Evans and Churchill at Sea

7 November 2007 : Ron Mackenzie and John Elliot

The Pacific Paramedical Training Centre
A Wellington Hospital contribution to the Pacific Islands Health Service and NZ Overseas Aid Programme

5 December 2007 : Caroline Coats

Inspection, Palpation, Auscultation, Contemplation

6 February 2008: No meeting - Waitangi Day

5 March 2008 : Ron Easthope

On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers - the extraordinary life of a Victorian nurse
(with a Wellington Hospital connection)

2 April 2008 : David McHaffie

Penicillin - Who did the most to make it work?

7 May 2008 : Richard Stone

Did Scurvy Play a Part in the Failure of the Return of Scott's Polar Party?

4 June 2008 : Wyn Beasley

Understanding James

2 July 2008 : Alastair Macdonald

"Presentism" - Is this something that afflicts us all?

6 August 2008 : Lady Jocelyn Keith

"Health is a Political Affair"
The World Health Organisation at 60 and Alma Ata at 30

3 September 2008 : Archie Kerr

A History of Paediatrics at Hutt Hospital

1 October 2008 : Peter Turner

Egyptian Ophthalmia

5 November 2008 : Nisar Contractor

History of Electro-convulsive Therapy

4 February 2009: Roger Ridley-Smith

Prostitution in Paris in the 1830s

4 March 2009 : David McHaffie and Richard Stone

Lewis and the Effort Syndrome

1 April 2009 : Archie Kerr

Endocrinology in 200BC

6 May 2009 : John Wyeth

The Rise and Fall of Peptic Ulcer

3 June 2009 : Wyn Beasley

Popes to Prosthetics

1 July 2009 : Michael Shackleton

The Origin and Fate of the Mobile Surgical Unit NZMC
North Africa 1941-1942

5 August 2009 : Julian Crane

A Brief History of Tobacco

2 September 2009 : Ron Easthope

Sir James McKenzie 1853-1925

7 October 2009 : Richard Stone

Lionel Terry - Paranoid, Prophet or Both

4 November 2009 : Wyn Beasley

A year of Commemoration
Charles Darwin Born Feb 1809
The Origin of Species Published Nov 1859

3 February 2010: Ian St George

Colenso's Conditions

3 March 2010 : Wyn Beasley

The Romantic Surgeon

7 April 2010 : Ron Easthope

The Life and Times of Dr William Harvey

5 May 2010 : Auckland Medical Historical Society

Lessons in Anatomy : a selection of DVDs

2 June 2010 : Lou Costello

Plague

2 June 2010 : Ron Mackenzie

Measles

7 July 2010 : Nisar Contractor

Starry Starry Night

4 August 2010 : Colin Fenton

Cataract Story

1 September 2010 : David McHaffie

Floyer's Pulse-watch Revisited

6 October 2010 : Bob Smith

A History of Insulin and its Use

3 November 2010 : Roger Ridley-Smith

Queen Mary Hospital