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, new zealand medical journal

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, new zealand medical journal

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

9 copies of a medical research paper The Electrical Factor in Metabolism (Section 1) written by W.N. Abbott and E.F .Fowler with reference to Scalebuoys, printed by Commercial Printing Company Boulcott Avenue Wellington, distributed with the compliments of Frank A Stevenson 244 Hargreaves Street Bendigo.medical, new zealand medical journal

10 copies of a Medical Research Paper, The Electrical Factor in Metabolism (Section 2) by W.N. Abbott and E.F. Fowler with references to Scalebuoys, printed by Commercial Printing Company Boulcott Avenue Wellington.medical, new zealand medical journal

Book, The Electrical Factor in Metabolism (Section 5S) Sympathetico-Pituitary Dyscrasia in Relation to Emphysema and Asthma by W.N. Abbott and . Fowler.medical, new zealand medical journal

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

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

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

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 baby was delivered through a severely deformed pelvis, suffered a large indentation to the skull and did not live. 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 model of a newborn baby's head. The model is made of plaster, life-size, and is painted white. The model of the head shows a large indentation of two and a half inches in the skull on proper right, and a smaller dent on the proper left. Head is on a rectangular base. Label attached beneath the base of the object explains the significance of the object and notes that the model comes from the obstetric museum of the University of Edinburgh.obstetric delivery, anaesthesia

Frank Forster offered his extensive medical history collection of objects, books, journals, pamphlets and prints to the RACOG in London. an additional wing was built in 1988 to accommodate the collection at the new College House in Albert Street, East Melbourne. In a blue cardboard rectangle box with a sticker on one side that says "FITTINGS" and a sticker on the other side which is partially ripped off but says "TANDAR". There is a small set of forceps with the inscription ''F.F" in the box, as well as a long tube which has metal parts attached to it, as well as a small tube/metal part detached. Sticker on either side of the cardboard box, one side has a sticker which says "TANDAR" but is partially ripped, and the other side is a sticker which says "FITTINGS". The forceps have "F.F" engraved.

Dr Lionel Pelham Sapsford was a RCOG and RANZCOG Member whose wife donated these. The item is in a cardboard rectangle box with some writing on the front of the box. Inside of the box are seven wooden peg like items which are all connected by a string. The seven wooden pegs are hollow, and the top of the pegs have two holes in them which the string is threaded through. On the front of the cardboard box it says that the Sea Tangle Tents are "for dilating the OS and CERVIX UTERI" and in smaller writing underneath says "introduced by SIR JAMES SIMPSON, M.D". The box lists four of the "SPECIAL ADVANTAGES", for example "Firstly - They are always cheaper in price than Sponge Tents". Underneath this writing highlights a lecture by Professor Simpson about the item "at the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh - See Edinburgh Medical Journal for July 1864". Below this has a sticker which says "HOLLOW".

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