Victoria's Past - Rescued and Retold

With the ebb and flow of time, a little of Victoria's jettisoned past has washed up upon my desk: a discarded photo, a worn postcard, or a fading newspaper. Their long forgotten characters now retell their stories in a digital sampling, post by post. Their voices are my blog's vignettes. Researched and written by Heather Arnold.

Showing posts with label Doctors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doctors. Show all posts
Friday, July 21, 2023

Dr John Newman Tremearne of Creswick and Mandeville Hall

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John Newman Tremearne was a doctor, an inventor, was at one time was charged with manslaughter,  and claimed to be able to cure cancer.  Dr ...
Sunday, March 6, 2022

Dr Gweneth Wisewould and her father, Frank Wisewould

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Some years ago I read Dr Gweneth Wisewould's book, Outpost: a Doctor on the Divide (1) about her life as a doctor at Trentham. It is a...
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Saturday, February 12, 2022

Dr John James Helsham of Cranbourne

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In 1866, James H. Watson, who later became the President of the Royal Australian Historical Society, spent some time on Quail Island, at the...
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Heather
I am a local history enthusiast, the President of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society and the Secretary of the South Eastern Historical Association. I was the Local History Librarian at Casey Cardinia Libraries from 2005 until 2021.
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