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Ceremonial object - Ivory gavel
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Tool - Urological instrument, Weiss Lithontripteur
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Tool - Stapling gun
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Tool, Perforator and brace surgical instruments French 17th century
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Tool - Catheters, Thanes catheters
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Tool - urological instrument, Lithotome cache
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Tool - Hernia instrument, Davis Hernia instrument c 1880s
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Tool - Amputation set of surgical instruments
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Plaque - Bronze plaque of Hugh Devine, Sir Hugh Devine by Stanley Hammond
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Farquhar McCrae portrait
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Archibald Watson
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Archibald Watson
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Sir Louis Barnett
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
RACS facade 1960's
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Old Model School
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Matron's Quarters, Old Model School ( now RACS)
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Lord Casey visits RACS 1965
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Prince Charles visits RACS
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Herald Sun article Presentation of the mace to RACS
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Presentation of College mace
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
1927 Founders meeting
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Photograph (item) - Opening of RACS
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Decorative object - Coffee set
A gift given to Gordon Wheeler, first secretary of RACS. Includes six coffee cups and saucers, milk jug/lid, sugar pot/lid and coffee pot. 18 pieces in total
Coffee set belonging to Gordon Wheeler .Includes six coffee cups and saucers, milk jug/lid, sugar pot/lid and coffee pot. 18 pieces in total
orange and green floral and leaf decorations
secretary, racs, retirement
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Document (item) - Letter form Sir Astley Cooper
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Photograph (item) - Sir Alexander MacCormick on the yacht Ada
Inscribed ms: 'On board his yacht Ada prior to sailing it from England to Australia in 1927. Aged 73'
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Photograph (item) - Sir Douglas Miller in India
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Photograph (item) - Harold Dew outside Wadi Ben ADS, Palestine
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Photograph (item) - BK Rank scrubs up at the Heidelberg Military Hospital
Benjamin Rank was considered by many to be the father of plastic surgery in Australia. He was born on 14 January 1911 in Heidelberg, Victoria, where his father, Wreghitt Rank, owned a grain store and mill. His mother was Bessie née Smith. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and Ormond College, University of Melbourne, graduating with many honours and prizes. He did a two-year residency in the Royal Melbourne Hospital before going to London to specialise in surgery. There he did junior posts at St James' Hospital, Balham, but soon became fascinated by the new specialty of plastic surgery and was appointed assistant plastic surgeon at Hill End (Bart's EMS unit). Joining the Royal Australasian Army Medical Corps in 1940, he commanded their plastic surgical unit in Egypt. In 1942, he returned to Australia to set up a plastic and maxillofacial unit at Heidelberg Military Hospital. Among the patients treated there was one Flight Lieutenant John Gorton, who went on to become Prime Minister of Australia. In 1946 he was the first honorary plastic surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He spent much time overseas and was instrumental in setting up the specialty of plastic surgery in India, for which he set up 'Interplast' - a charity supported by the Rotary Clubs to offer training and expertise to Asian and Pacific nations. He was the Sims Commonwealth Travelling Professor of the College in 1958, Moynihan lecturer in 1972, President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1965 and President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1966 to 1968. He made important contributions to the study of Marjolin's ulcer, radiation carcinoma, and the transition from benign to malignant melanoma. He also made a major contribution to hand surgery, and his textbook Surgery of repair as applied to hand injuries (Livingstone, 1953) ran to four editions. He wrote extensively, including an autobiography, and was a talented painter. He was a tireless campaigner for no-fault motor accident insurance and was President of the St John Ambulance Association. He married Barbara Lyle Facy in 1938. They had one son Andrew, and three daughters, Helen, Julie and Mary (one of whom became a nurse). He died on 26 January 2002. Reference; https:livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk
surgeon, sir benjamin rank, heidelberg military hospital, plastic surgery, royal melbourne hospital
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Letter (item) - Letter from Mrs Sarah Parrish to Dr WH Brown, surgeon of Colac
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Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Museum and Archives
Functional object - Writing desk, Mervyn Smith, 1985
Mervyn Smith CBE was RACS President 1983-85
Antique rosewood brass covered box with brass inserted handles, tooled leather insert top
BRASS PLAQUE ON LID: "PRESENTED TO THE ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS BY MERVYN SMITH, CHAIRMAN, COURT OF EXAMINERS 1975-1983
1983, racs, president, mervyn smith