Explore our exhibits across 3 floors in the Mayne Medical School Building, Herston.
To celebrate the launch of our publication 50 Treasures: a collection of objects from the Marks-Hirschfeld Museum of Medical History, we’re exhibiting many of the wonderful objects featured in the book, including Queensland’s first X-ray machine, a turn of the century embalming pump and a 130cm long rigid gastroscope.
Buy your copy of the book then come to visit your favourite objects!
The history of electrocardiography: how a toy train and a dog named Jimmy contributed to development of medicine’s most important tool of cardiac diagnosis.
Queensland’s first x-ray machine and the perils of radiation
Stalwart of anaesthetics and mid-century beauty – The Boyle-type anaesthetic machine
The post-war rise of audiology
Level 3
A history of microscopes
Inside a 100-year-old operating theatre cabinet
Things to poke in your eye: tiny gems from our ophthalmological collection
Dr Stuart Patterson’s infant respirator
Explosive ether: a look at anaesthetics most popular agent
The music of lithotomy
Coming soon – Ventilators and ethics
Level 2
Tonsillectomy tools
The troubling history of electroconvulsive therapy
Pharmaceuticals on show
Meet Ernest Sanford Jackson
Braces, splints and plaster: precursors to orthopaedics
