Birdsville Frontier Services Hospital Museum

Birdsville Frontier Services Hospital Museum

by | Jan 20, 2017 | Rural Australia

Dr Genna Verbeek is a registrar at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. In 2017 she will begin her anaesthetic training with the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.   It was 45C (135F) in the sun. The oppressive heat seemed to make everything slower....
Why did the British anaesthetist, Joseph Clover (1825-1882), have bank accounts in New Zealand?

Why did the British anaesthetist, Joseph Clover (1825-1882), have bank accounts in New Zealand?

by | Jan 15, 2017 | Collections, Falconer Larkworthy, Joseph Sampson Gamgee, Joseph Thomas Clover, Research

Joseph Clover trained initially as a surgeon but, by the 1860s, was one of the foremost anaesthetists in Britain. He was one of only a handful of doctors who devoted his practice to anaesthesia at that time. I have been researching his life for many years since the...