Palmerston North Hospital Medical Museum
The Medical Museum was established in 1980 and is administered by a Charitable Trust.
The Trust acquires, stores, preserves, displays and interprets items of historic and educational medical interest.
The museum is an independent organisation working in co-operation with MidCentral Health and its staff.
Dr David Warnock in the Medical Museum.
The Medical Museum is open by appointment. Please contact Dr David Warnock on
Phone (06) 356 9169 x 7600
or (06) 357 4140
The Museum’s collection is housed at Palmerston North Hospital, near Gate 5, Heretaunga Street.
Medical instruments and equipment have evolved over many years and illustrate how medical conditions of today, were dealt with by physicians in the past. At the museum there are some remarkable examples of these tools and explanations on how they were used.
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Medical Museum - Iron Lung
Patients with anterior poliomyelitis were often unable to breath and required artificial respiration to keep them alive.
Recovery often took several months and some did not survive. Iron lungs were first invented during the 1937-38 epidemic and were in common use during the 1947-48 and 1951-52 epidemics.
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Medical Museum - Dental Equipment |
The Museum is run by volunteers and its activities are resourced by donations. It does not use Public Health funding. Your donations as Friends of the Medical Museum are tax exempt.
Contact
Dr David Warnock is the Curator and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees.
Dr D. Warnock
Phone (06) 356 9169 x 7600
or (06) 357 4140
Email: Medical.Museum@MidCentraldhb.govt.nz
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Last Updated 28/09/2011