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Federation University Historical Collection
Object, Blue Light Outfit, c1914
The bluelight outfit was offered to members of the armed services in an attempt to prevent venereal disease. Around 60,000 Australian soldiers had contracted venereal disease by the end of the First World War. (http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/secret-wwi-history-of-australian-soldiers-with-venereal-disease-20141022-119wan.html, accessed 21 August 2017) Australia colloquial language defines a Blue Light clinic as a venereal disease clinic.A cardboard box with two tubes of ointment - an anti-Venereal Disease outfit supplied to Australian Armed Services Tube number one is filled with brown contents known as 'No. 1 ointment BROWN' and has a long, tapered opening, with black pastic lid. Tube number two is filled with a thick white ointment 'No. 2 ointment WHITE', with a normal opening and metal lid. The tubes contained 3 percent Argyrol Jelly for gonorrhea and 33% Calomel Ointment (Mercury-Chloride) for syphilis prophylaxis.Inside box: Directions for Use Before Connection 1. Rub head and shaft of Penis with half the tube of No. 2 Ointment, White. 2. Always wear a sheath After Connection 1. Pass water IMMEDIATELY 2. Wash thoroughly Penis and Scrotum with soap and water. 3. Inject the whole of the contents of the Tube of No. 1. Oitnment, Brown, into pipe and massage back 2 inches. 4. Rub remainder of tube No. 2 Ointment, White, on head and shaft of Penis and Scrotum 5. Hold urine some hours after treatment 6. Report at V.D. Prevention Depot (Blue Light Depot) as soon as possible. 7. Having read directions and understood them, destroy by tearing up or by burning.blue light outfit, veneral disease, vd, armed services, gonorrhea, syphilis, disease, medical -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Department of External Affairs, Melbourne, Bulletin of the Northern Territory, Bulletin No. 1, March 1912, 1912
Soft brown covered book of 68 pages. Photographic images of Roper River, Mount McMinn, Abraham's Lagoon, Edith Creek, Red Lily Lagoon, Darwin Boy Scouts, China Town in Darwin, Umbrawarra Creek, Paddy's lagoon, McMinn's Homestead, gold cradle, Aborigines, Syphilis, Mungurai, yaws.northern territory, scientific expedition, health, domesticated animals, j.a. gilruth, a. breinl, mosquitos, paul foelscher, roper river, mount mcminn, abraham's lagoon, edith creek, red lily lagoon, darwin boy scouts, china town in darwin, umbrawarra creek, paddy's lagoon, mcminn's homestead, gold cradle, aborigines, syphilis, mungurai, yaws, buffalo fly, henry tryon -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Manufactured Glass, bottle 'Crystalline Penicillin', December 1955
Penicillin is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi, including penicillin G, procaine penicillin, benzathine penicillin, and penicillin V. Penicillin antibiotics are historically significant because they are the first drugs that were effective against many previously serious diseases, such as syphilis, and infections caused by staphylococci and streptococci. Penicillins are still widely used today, though many types of bacteria have now become resistant. All penicillins are β-lactam antibiotics and are used in the treatment of bacterial infections caused by susceptible, usually Gram-positive, organisms. The development of penicillin for use as a medicine is attributed to the Australian Nobel laureate Howard Walter Florey, together with the German Nobel laureate Ernst Chain and the English biochemist Norman Heatley A clear glass bottle with a metal fixed top in which the central rubber disc has been pierced by a needle .Front: CRYSTALLINE PENICILLIN / ( SODIUM SALT) G / GLAXO / FOR INJECTION / Use only under medical supervision / 1000000 / UNITS PER VIAL. Left side : Refrigeration unnecessary....MANFD. DEC. 1955 / EXPIRY DEC. 1958 / POTENCY 1667 / IU/MG / BATCH 269. Right side :Contains over 90% / penicillin G / Contains no preservatives / GLAXO LABORATORIES / (AUST.) PTY. LTD. / Melbourne Sydneypharmacy, medicines, penicillin, early settlers, market gardeners, moorabbin, bentleigh, cheltenham, manufactured glass, bottles, glaxo laboratories melbourne -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - NOTE BOOK, 1918
Full name: Robert Sinclair John Mackay, POB Caithness, Scotland. Training notes: "B" is about bearings - navigation. "G" is for guard duty, "H" is for human frame with drawing and notes - skull to toes - bones. "H" is for hemisphere - finding north in north and south hemispheres. "M" Map reading. "Q" Quarter master rules. "R" Road Railway river recon report. "R" .303 Cartridge design and Ballistics. "R" - duties of an R.S.M. "S" - Stretcher drill. Syphilis, Gonorrhea. "ST" is for stables routine. "W" is for words of command, Ambulance formations. At the very back of the book, is a list of numbers in 3 columns. Mackay enlisted on 8.9.1914 No 907 in the 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance, embarked for Eygpt 2.2.1915, embark for Gallipoli 25.10.1915, Hospital 21.11.1915 (just said “Disc”) while in Eygpt he is hospitalised again with Bronchial Pneumonia rejoin unit 2.4.1916, hospital 6.11.1916 with Bruised Thigh, promoted Cpl 18.2.1918, hospital 4.8.1918 with Catarrhal Jaundice, rejoin unit 14.9.1918, promoted Sgt in the field 29.1.1919, hospital 26.4.1919 (unclear), hospital 20.6.1919 with Fractured right Disc, embark for England 23.7.1919, RTA 4.1.1920, Discharged from the AIF 22.2.1920. Pocket sized address book which has been used as a Training Exercise book. The cover is made of dark buckram. Inside are sections labelled A - Z, with lined pages or each section. First page has written in pencil: - “CPL ROBERT S. MACKAY, 907 3rd L.H.F.A. 3rd L.H. Brigade, A.M.D. MOASCAR 2 Jnay 1918”.ww1, lighthorse, training notes, 3rd field ambulance