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A Plague a’ both your houses – A largely literary look at past plague pandemics | presented by Ron Easthope

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Date

May 05 2021
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Time

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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Speaker

  • Ron Easthope
    Ron Easthope
    Ron Easthope
    Ron Easthope

    Ron is a retired Wellington Hospital cardiologist and is currently honorary Archivist Wellington Hospital, and honorary Archivist RACP (NZ).
    He has been a regular contributor to the WMHS since 2002, and he created and maintains the society’s web site. His interests lie in medical history relating to New Zealand (especially Wellington) and Britain.

    Talks given to WMHS previously have included:

    2003 Stories behind early heart surgery in Wellington
    2003 Thomas Wakely – Battling Surgeon
    2004 Medical Tales of Painting, Politics and the Painfully-paraysed Prisoner
    2005 Mostly Murder – the life story of a great medical detective
    2005 Remembering Dr Verney Cable
    2006 Early Private Hospitals in Wellington and some of the remarkable Nurses who ran them
    2006 Wellington Hospital – the early years. Celebrating 125 years in Newtown
    2007 Potions, Premises and Personalities – some musings on Pharmacies and Pharmacists in early Wellington
    2008 On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers – the extraordinary life of a Victorian nurse (with a Wellington Hospital connection)
    2009 Sir James McKenzie 1853 – 1925
    2010 The Life and Times of Dr William Harvey
    2011 The Big House – stories of Elibank
    2012 The Place of Hearts – tales of the unexpected
    2013 The National Heart Hospital 1914 – 1990 and the golden age of clinical cardiology
    2013 London Hospitals – the impact of the Dissolution
    2014 From Hogarth to Rowlandson
    Medical-themed satirical art in 18th century Britain
    2015 William Ledingham Christie – the remarkable life and times of Otago Medical School’s first graduate
    2016 To (and from) Russia with love – the remarkable Ethel Christie
    2016 Barbara Mackenzie – who do you think she was?
    2017 Dr James Barry 1789 – 1865
    a pioneering British Army surgeon
    2018 F Truby King -:- a man of letters
    2019 Educating Nurses at Wellington Hospital