The Value of ANZCA Corporate Collection
Susanne Ciavatta is currently undertaking her Masters in Museum Studies at Deakin University. Susie has been volunteering with the Geoffrey Kaye Museum since November 2016, and has been working on identifying, cataloguing and meeting the storage needs of the ANZCA...
What’s on for 2017?
2017 marks 25 years since the establishment of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA). So, as part of ANZCA, we’ll be celebrating 25 years too. But, whether it’s related to 25 years or not, there’s plenty going on this year and you...
What is an honorary curator? A personal reflection
Thirty years ago I made a trip to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Spring Street, Melbourne with Dr Rod Westhorpe. At the time I was an anaesthetic registrar at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, approaching my final exams and the end of my...
Acriflavine: Why is it in an anaesthetic museum?
The Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History seems an unlikely place to find a bottle of acriflavine. It is a topical antiseptic, made from coal tar, discovered in 1912 by the German scientist Paul Ehrlich. It was used to treat everything from minor burns and...