Programme

2011 - 2018

2 February 2011: Ron Easthope

The Big House - stories of Elibank
Owners and Occupiers - Near Neighbours - Medical Miscellany

2 March 2011 : Graham Martin

The Medical Surgeon re-enacted, and the Death of Henry II of France in a Joust

6 April 2011 : Wyn Beasley

Weasels, Keys and Thersites

4 May 2011 : Michael Shackleton

New Zealand Doctors in Vietnam

1 June 2011 : Richard Stone

Astley Cooper - Anatomist, Scientist, Surgeon and Sometimes Resurrectionist

6 July 2011 : Susi Williams

The fate of Berlin Jewish Insurance Doctors under National Socialism 1933 - 1945

3 August 2011 : Ron Mackenzie

Malaria - Ancient and Modern - Unravelling the Mystery

7 September 2011 : David McHaffie

Erasmus Darwin - Free-thinker in the Age of Reason

5 October 2011 : Julian Crane

A brief history of Melancholia and relevant deviations

2 November 2011 : Roger Ridley-Smith

Gallipoli - Running Hot and Cold

1 February 2012: Ron Easthope

The Place of Hearts - Tales of the Unexpected

7 March 2012 : Wyn Beasley

The Joys of Writing History

4 April 2012 : Graham Martin

The Secret Trepanation of Pope Clement VI

2 May 2012 : Peter Dukes

The Pain of Labour

6 June 2012 : Archie Kerr

Docs at Sea

4 July 2012 : Ron Easthope

Lindsay's Links : a Site for Your Eyes

4 July 2012 : David McHaffie

Society Update

1 August 2012 : Michael Shackleton

The Ailments of Anthony Eden - a cautionary tale

5 September 2012 : Warren Austad

Talking Sense

3 October 2012 : Olaf Simpson and David McHaffie

The Life and Times of James Young Simpson

7 November 2012 : Jayne Krisjanous

Phossy Jaw and Victorian Match Workers:
Alleviating a dreaded occupational disease
by changing consumer purchasing preferences

6 February 2013: Ron Easthope

The National Heart Hospital 1914-1990
and the golden age of clinical cardiology

6 March 2013 : Susi Williams

Dame Cecily Pickerill and The Bassam Hospital

3 April 2013 : Wyn Beasley

A full lineout of Monros

1 May 2013 : Peter Leslie

Psychology, Pathology, Politics and Power

5 June 2013 : Wyn Beasley

Update on the Monros - the Monro Collection

5 June 2013 : Roger Ridley-Smith

The Karori Lunatic Asylum

3 July 2013 : Archie Kerr

Quiz

3 July 2013 : David McHaffie

Maurice Pappworth

7 August 2013 : Warren Austad

Livery, Apothecary and all that stuff

4 September 2013 :

Business meeting

4 September 2013 : Ron Easthope

London Hospitals - the impact of the Dissolution

2 October 2013 : Linda Watt and Matthew King

Health and History shaped by the process of Elimination

6 November 2013 : Jayne Krisjanous

"Enjoy the war; the peace will be terrible!"
The work of the UNRRA in the lives of Europe's Displaced Persons post WW II

5 February 2014: Ron Easthope

From Hogarth to Rowlandson
Medical-themed satirical art in 18th century Britain

5 March 2014 : Peter Dukes

The Pain of Labour - 2

2 April 2014 : Wyn Beasley

The Enigma of Lord Moran

7 May 2014 : David McHaffie

Sir Arthur Keith - the evolution of man

4 June 2014 : Steve Behrendt

Surgeons in the British Slave Trade

2 July 2014 : Jenny Visser

Antarctic Expedition Doctors

6 August 2014 : Michael Shackleton

In Retrospect - General Practitioner surgeons and the
struggle for survival of the Waimate Hospital

3 September 2014 : Roger Ridley-Smith

The Treaty of Versailles of 1919

1 October 2014 : Jayne Krisjanous

Doctors as spokespersons in cigarette advertising

5 November 2014 : Peter Leslie

Fruits of War

3 December 2014 : Susi Williams

From Omnipotent doctor to Multidisciplinary team

4 February 2015: Ron Easthope

William Ledingham Christie - the remarkable life and times of
Otago Medical School's first graduate

4 March 2015 : Redmer Yska

Death Stalks the Doll's House: how a season of epidemics
shaped Katherine Mansfield and her world

1 April 2015: Dame Margaret Sparrow

Contraception and Abortion in 19th century New Zealand

6 May 2015 : Richard Stone and Peter Turner

Sheer Lunacy - the influence of the moon on the development of civilisation

3 June 2015 : Leo Buchanan

Provincial Paediatrics in the 1970s

1 July 2015 : Wyn Beasley

Artists of the Burma Railway

5 August 2015 : Archie Kerr

Sailor, Painter, Composer - orphans in the 18th Century

2 September 2015 : Lucy Sulzberger>

Gillies, McIndoe and the Guinea Pig Club:
The New Zealand Beginnings of Plastic Surgery

7 October 2015 : Jane Tolerton

NZ Medical Heroines of WW1

4 November 2015 : David McHaffie

Elliott's Scalpel and Sword

2 December 2015 : Roger Ridley-Smith

Work and Prayer in the Medieval Monastery

3 February 2016: Ron Easthope

To and from Russia with love - the remarkable Ethel Christie.

2 March 2016 : Wyn Beasley

Dispatch from Waterloo

6 April 2016 : David McHaffie

Letters from Tchaikovsky

4 May 2016 : Susi Williams

Tales of three hospitals during WW2

1 June 2016 : Bob Smith

Stories with a medical aspect from the Book of Tobit

6 July 2016 : Warren Austad

The College and the pomegranate

3 August 2016 : Roger Ridley-Smith

Very General Practice

7 September 2016 : Julia Wells

Quinine, Whisky and Sun Helmets:
Amateur Medicine in British East and South-Central Africa, 1890-1939

5 October 2016 : Ron Easthope

Barbara A Mackenzie - who do you think she was?

2 November 2016 : Jayne Krisjanous and Jo Walton

Nurse Mackenzie's photo album: what did she see?

7 December 2016 : David Abernethy

Oliver Sacks - meta-neurologist

1 February 2017: Peter Hatfield

Treatment of Kidney Failure in New Zealand

1 March 2017 : Clare Ashton

Sister McMillan's Gallipoli kitten and other animals: mascots at the first world war

5 April 2017 : weather cancellation

3 May 2017 : Michael Harrison

The Very Early History of Modern Anaesthesia

7 June 2017 : Bob Smith

The Legacy of Epicurus

5 July 2017 : Anna Rogers

Classed as Angels: New Zealand's First World War nurses

2 August 2017 : Wyn Beasley

Understanding Judas

6 September 2017 : Glyn Harper

Bully beef, biscuits and scurvy: the rations at Gallipoli

4 October 2017 : Ron Easthope

Dr James Barry 1789 - 1865
a pioneering British Army surgeon

1 November 2017 : Jayne Krisjanous

Stately Hospitals of the World Wars - the mortal wounding of the English Country Home

6 December 2017 : Dianne Buchan

Sun, Sea and Sustenance
The Story of the Otaki Children's Health Camp

7 February 2018: Roger Ridley-Smith

Blitzed - The Nazis and the Pharmaceutical Industry

7 March 2018 : George Salmond

Nuclear Weapons, an On Going Dilemma
- a personal reflection

4 April 2018 : Wyn Beasley

Three Men : - building a robust scientific heritage

2 May 2018 : Bob Smith

Hitler's Gift to British Medicine

6 June 2018 : Lucy Sulzberger

Medicine Man: The Cures and Curios of Sir Henry Wellcome

4 July 2018 : Ron Easthope

F. Truby King -:- a man of letters

1 August 2018 : Michael Harrison

James Young Simpson of Edinburgh

5 September 2018 : Jayne Krisjanous

Capturing hunger in the Dustbowl through the lens of Dorothea Lange

3 October 2018 : Diana Murray

51 years of Nursing and Midwifery in Wellington,
a personal perspective, 1967 to 2018

7 November 2018 : Archie Kerr

Small Pox but a Big Problem

5 December 2018 : Ellie Jay

The Mount Felix Tapestry : A London hospital
for soldiers wounded at Gallipoli

6 February 2019 : Peter Hatfield

The history of Kidney Transplantation

6 March 2019 : Wyn Beasley

The 'Marquette' and the Founders

3 April 2019 : Roger Ridley-Smith

The Clerkenwell Workhouse

1 May 2019 : Heidi Thomson

John Keats, Poet-Physician: Poetry and Palliative Care

5 June 2019 : Don Rennie

History of ACC and the reasons for todays problems

3 July 2019 : Ron Easthope

Educating Nurses at Wellington Hospital : 1883 - 1985

7 August 2019 : Bob Smith

The troubling legacy of Auguste Deter, Alois Alzheimer and Emil Kraepelin

4 September 2019 : Lucy Sulzberger

Peaches with a side of Typhoid: The Tale of Mary Mallon

2 October 2019 : Archie Kerr

Ancient Indian Medicine

13 November 2019 : Jayne Krisjanous

Mary Toft's Rabbets: Best Fake News Story Ever?

4 December 2019 : Ron Easthope

Nurse Mildred Rees - a family story