Reprint from the 'British Medical Journal' dated 11 March, 1944 Letters to the Editor, Page 373. Written by W. N. Abbott of Auckland. Refers to medical matters and Scalebuoys.sciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, british medical journal, dr beaumont, dr robertson, new zealand medical journal, medical research council of great britain, 'the electrical factor in metabolism', abbott, fowler, w n abbott, bendigo electronic coy, f a stevenson, cambridge press

42 copies of a small 8 page booklet titled, The Electrical Factor in the Sedimentation Rate of Blood reprinted from the New Zealand Medical Journal April 1941.W N Abbott & E F Fowlersciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy

11 copies of a research paper, The Electrical Factor in Renal Metabolism (Section 4) by W.N.Abbott and E.F.Fowler, reprinted from the New Zealand Medical Journal June 1941.medical

123 copies of a small 8 page booklet titled, The Electrical Factor in Renal Metabolism (Section 4) reprinted from the New Zealand Medical Journal June 1941.W N Abbott & E F Fowlersciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy

10 copies of a research paper on The Electrical Factor in the Sedimentation Rate of Blood (Section 3) by W.N.Abbott and E.F.Fowler, with reference to Scalebuoys, reprinted from the New Zealand Medical Journal April 1941.medical

Personal diary of Dr F.J Browne used in England, 1951. Some loose papers associated with this diary were returned to the RANZCOG Archives in March 1998.Small 'Datada' diary for the year 1951. The diary has a dark brown leather cover, and the word "diary" is printed in gold lettering on cover. Associated personal notes, medical notes, journal references, and patient notes for this item are held in the RANZCOG Archives.browne fj

This a cast of the first baby to be delivered under anaesthesia, by the use of ether, in Edinburgh on 19 January 1847. The famous physician James Young Simpson, Professor of midwifery at Edinburgh University, attended this birth and wrote about it in the Monthly Journal of Medical Science 1846-7 Vol.7, p649-640. The cast of the baby's head was given to Lance Townsend, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne by Robert Kellar, then Professor of Midwifery and Diseases of Women at the University of Edinburgh, when Professor Townsend was visiting Edinburgh. There is at least one other plaster copy; one is located at Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 520 North Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068-2573, USAReplica of a new born baby's head, painted plaster, life size. The model of the head shows a large indentation of two and a half inches in the skull on the left side. The baby was delivered through a severely deformed pelvis, suffered a large indentation to the skull and did not live.obstetric delivery, anaesthesia

Dr Margaret Alison Mackie wrote this article in 1961 for The Medical Journal of Australia. It was a highly regarded article, for which Dr Mackie received a number of worldwide requests for copies of the article. See 2024.40.7.Dr Margaret Alison Mackie (1910-1991) was in active practice between 1936 and 1970. She was a Fellow of the College, and was appointed a Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to medicine in 1975. Reprint of an article written by Dr Margaret Alison Mackie for the Medical Journal of Australia, 1961. The article is entitled 'Treatment of Toxaemia of Pregnancy' and is printed double sided on a single piece of paper. Header of the page reads 'Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, April 15, 1961.'obstetrics

Newspaper clippings from a variety of Australian and New Zealand newspapers regarding blindness, the work of Auxiliaries, RVIB, handbills, concert programs, blind entertainers, blinded soldiers, a Braille globe of the world large enough for a child to enter it, various concert programs, and the activities, accidents and experiences of blind people in the community. A page from the Victorian Parliamentary Debates (p89), an election pamphlet by Prahran Election nominee H.F. Smith and the British Medical Journal (Nov 3, 1917, p585, Welfare of the Blind) are also included. 1 book of newspaper cuttingsassociation for the advancement of the blind, sydney industrial blind institution, fundraising, blind soldiers, royal victorian institute for the blind, employment, braille and talking book library, recreation, education, charles goode, queensland musical literary and self aid society for the blind, south australian institution for the blind deaf and dumb, queensland blind, deaf and dumb institution, blind advance association, victoria institute and industrial school, alfred felton, edward wilson, n.s.w. institution for deaf dumb and blind, st dunstan's, helen keller, tasmanian society for blind deaf and dumb, auckland jubilee institute for the blind