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ADLER MUSEUM OF MEDICINE ANNUAL REPORT 2012 GENERAL PROGRESS A number of important exhibitions were completed during the year: POLIOMYELITIS THE DREAD OF YESTERYEAR This new permanent exhibition was opened on 14 August 2012 by guest speaker Professor Barry Schoub, former Executive Director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Services and Wits Professor of Virology. Professor Schoub gave a fascinating talk entitled Poliomyelitis towards eradication which was about the WHO drive to eradicate poliomyelitis which is presently endemic in only two countries in the world. He also contributed extensively in advising and assisting the curator, Rochelle Keene, in compiling the text for the panels. Educational worksheets are available for primary and high school learners. The exhibition is one of the highlights of the Museum. 50 TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADLER MUSEUM OF MEDICINE On 18 October 2012, Faculty and Museum staff, past and present Board members, alumni, early donors and friends celebrated the Golden Jubilee of the Adler Museum of Medicine with a celebratory tea and cake event and a presentation by Dr Joseph Teeger, a 1951 Wits Medical School graduate and former Board member. An exhibition on the highlights of the Museum was compiled by the Museum staff for the occasion and the Dean, Professor Ahmed Wadee, cut the celebratory cake. The Museum continues the ideals of the Museum’s co-founders, Drs Cyril and Esther Adler, to preserve the history of the health sciences in southern Africa. The Museum also continues to support the education activities of the University, especially the Faculty of Health Sciences, by means of its collection, research, teaching, exhibitions, and publications.

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ADLER MUSEUM OF MEDICINE

ANNUAL REPORT 2012 GENERAL PROGRESS A number of important exhibitions were completed during the year: POLIOMYELITIS – THE DREAD OF YESTERYEAR

This new permanent exhibition was opened on 14 August 2012 by guest speaker Professor Barry Schoub, former Executive Director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Services and Wits Professor of Virology. Professor Schoub gave a fascinating talk entitled Poliomyelitis – towards eradication which was about the WHO

drive to eradicate poliomyelitis which is presently endemic in only two countries in the world. He also contributed extensively in advising and assisting the curator, Rochelle Keene, in compiling the text for the panels. Educational worksheets are available for primary and high school learners. The exhibition is one of the highlights of the Museum. 50

TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADLER MUSEUM OF MEDICINE

On 18 October 2012, Faculty and Museum staff, past and present Board members, alumni, early donors and friends celebrated the Golden Jubilee of the Adler Museum of Medicine with a celebratory tea and cake event and a presentation by Dr Joseph Teeger, a 1951 Wits Medical School graduate and former Board member. An exhibition on the highlights of the Museum was compiled by the Museum staff for the occasion and the Dean, Professor Ahmed Wadee, cut the celebratory cake. The Museum continues the ideals of the Museum’s co-founders, Drs Cyril and Esther Adler, to preserve the history of the health sciences in southern Africa. The Museum also continues to support the education activities of the University, especially the Faculty of Health Sciences, by means of its collection, research, teaching, exhibitions, and publications.

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Medical Chronicle 1 November 2012, p 6

CONFRONTING HIV/AIDS

This is a newly researched and installed permanent exhibition on the history of HIV/AIDS. A publication accompanies the exhibition. The text for the exhibition and publication were researched by Professor Maria Papathanasopoulos, Co-Director: HIV Pathogenesis Research Laboratory and Genotyping Laboratory, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wits; Professor Simonne Horwitz, Department of

History, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, School of Humanites, Wits; and the Museum’s Curator, Rochelle Keene. The exhibition forms part of the Faculty’s teaching syllabus. An opening event will take place in 2013.

Students from Saskatchewan University viewing the HIV/AIDS exhibition, July 2012

VISITORS The Museum continues to receive visitors from around South Africa and worldwide and the 2012 visitors book records international visitors from Mauritius, USA, Canada, Wales, Chile, Sweden, Korea, France, Germany, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Nigeria. Important visitors to the Museum and visitors to the Faculty who specifically visited the Museum included: Dr Jonathan Silberberg, a Wits 1978 Medical School graduate and cardiologist from Australia; Professor David Dawson from Oregon Health & Science University, USA; Professors David Andrew and Raimi Gbadamosi from the Wits School of Arts (January); Dr Dean Arneson, Concordia University, Wisconsin, USA; Dr Manj Sandhu, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute & University of Cambridge, UK (March); Professor Geoffrey Meyer, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, University of Western Australia (April); Professors Kenneth Maes and Stephan McGarvey, Brown University, USA; Professor Muhammad H Saman, Departments of Biomedical Engineering,

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Medicine and International Health, Boston University, USA (May); Professor Simonne Horwitz, Department of History, University of Saskatchawen, Canada with 10 of her students (July); Professor Roy Zent, nephrologist, medical cell biologist and Wits alumnus, Vanderbilt University, USA; Professor Barry Schoub, former Executive Director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Services and Wits Professor of Virology; Dr Bernie Tabatznik, 1949 alumnus visiting from the USA; Professor Parveen Kumar and Dr Michael Clark, Barts and the London School of Medicine (August); Dr Dialo Diop, Virology Laboratory, Dakar Medical School, Senegal, (September); Dr Norman Blumberg, 1951 alumnus, visiting from the USA; Mr Sagie Pillay, CEO of the NHLS; Emeritus Professor Hendrik Koornhof, Centre for Tuberculosis, NICD and former Adler Museum Board member; Dr Barry Kistnasamy, Executive Director, NIOH and NCD; Dr Joseph Teeger, 1951 alumnus (October). COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT Good progress has been made with the capturing and photographing of objects onto the Museum’s database. All Museum items in the main campus storeroom have been moved to the main storeroom on the Education Campus. This storeroom has unfortunately developed a mould problem. Board member Professor Tony Davies requested the NIOH Occupational Hygiene Section to conduct a survey of the storeroom. An in depth study was done and a report submitted to the Museum. The conclusion and recommendations are to install a ventilation system and control the temperature and humidity in the area. This will be undertaken in 2013. ARCHIVES The Museum’s archives are frequently used. Research in 2012 included: Dr Peter Arnold (MBBCh 1961) who was in contact with the Museum and Alumni Relations to assist him with his research into Wits graduates who migrated to Australia or who were in his 1961 graduating class. He has subsequently published a book: A Unique Migration: South African Doctors Fleeing to Australia (January); Petros Andreadis, a PhD student from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, doing research on the hospitals of Barberton, Mpumalanga used the archives on his visit to Johannesburg (April); Roger Cohen sourcing information on his grandfather, Lawrence Adler (May); Nellie Bowles, a Fulbright scholar, requiring information on asbestos and lung diseases; Professor Julien Oettlé, researching information on the history of proctology in South Africa; Nathan Levin, Chairman Research Board, Renal Research Institute, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who is researching the history of renal transplantation in Johannesburg (July). The Museum also assisted Dr Bernie Tabatznik with a Wits reunion held from 2 to 5 October 2012 in the USA, by arranging a copy of a video in its archives on Professor PV Tobias. This was sent to the USA for viewing at one of the reunion evenings which was devoted to the late Professor PV Tobias. In addition, the Museum often receives correspondence and requests for information or photographic illustrations from scholars who are writing books. These have included Professor Jock McCulloch, International Development Program, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, who published a book entitled: South Africa’s Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis (2012) and Anthea Jaffrey, South African Institute of Race Relations: Head of Special Research, who published: From Myths to Modernity: The Story of Blood Transfusion in South Africa (2012). The book was commissioned by the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) to mark the 75

th anniversary of the establishment of the first blood transfusion service in the country – the

Rand Blood Transfusion Service – in 1937. The museum provided information regarding blood, its components, and its therapeutic uses; biographical data on a number of the key people who helped create and build up the different blood transfusion services within South Africa and a number of photographs which helped to illustrate the book.

LOANS FROM THE MUSEUM The exhibition Health and Health Care under Apartheid was loaned to Constitution Hill from August – December 2012. An extension to the loan has been requested until May 2013.

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A Bausch and Lomb monocular microscope was loaned to Moonlighting Film Company for the making of the film Challenger Final Flight, which was produced for the BBC and Science Channel. The film starred Oscar winner William Hurt as US physicist Richard Feynman. The two hour TV film is a factual drama exploring the truth behind the space Challenger’s 1986 explosion. The Museum was credited in the film.

LIBRARY The library continues to be used frequently by staff, students and researchers. DONATIONS Donations and bequests were received from 19 donors and 9 people contributed books and archival material in 2012. Apart from the personal bequest from the late Professor PV Tobias to the Museum, medals, trophies, awards, certificates and souvenirs which were bequeathed to Wits University for lodging in the Adler Museum are currently being recorded, accessioned and documented. A full list of the bequest will be available once all items have been received and recorded. A 2012 donations list is attached to this report. The Museum is immensely grateful to donors as their gifts ensure that the collection is expanded in an appropriate way. BULLETIN Two issues of the Adler Museum Bulletin were produced. Sincere thanks are recorded to Professor JCA Davies for his co-editing of the Bulletin and for his dedication and time devoted to the publication. The Museum receives many requests for past articles and Bulletins. Three of the many requests in 2012 were from: Dr João Pedro Fonseca, Centro de Medicina de Reabilitação de Alcoitão, Alcabideche, Estoril, Portugal, who requested the Bulletin article "The role of Dr Johan Arvedson (1862 – 1936) in the emergence and development of physiotherapy” published in the Adler Museum Bulletin 1999, 25 (3): 15-17; Professor Micha Levy, MD, MS, Drhc in Israel requested a copy of the article The D'Arbela saga, some African reflections by Professor Krishna Somers which appeared in the Adler Museum Bulletin 2007, 33 (2), 17-32; and Helen Lunn, an independent researcher, who requested all the Bulletin articles on Sydney and Emily Kark. COLLABORATION WITH STUDENTS Collaboration with the MSC (Medical Students’ Council) continues and the Museum assists with many events and projects including the Student Trade Fair, Cancer Shavathon, Live@Lunch concerts, meetings, and much more. The Wits Students Surgical Society also frequently uses the Museum for events and meetings as do other student bodies. The Museum displays exhibitions throughout the year to co-incide with the GEMP teaching programme and many students visit the Museum. USE OF MUSEUM BY OTHER GROUPS Active use of the Museum is made by the Faculty, the Medical Students’ Council and other student bodies, Wits Campus Wellness, other Wits Faculties, outside organisations and many events were held in the Museum during the year. These included breakfasts, book launches, banquets, seminars, lectures, product launches, meetings, prize-givings, graduations and exhibitions.

Wits first year history methodology students and their tutor from the Faculty of Education visited the Museum to focus on evidence and how one works with evidence in history. Many of the students were first time visitors to a museum. They also looked at the importance of museums in preserving history, heritage and culture and focused on the History of Tuberculosis exhibition as an example (July).

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Professor Simonne Horwitz and 10 humanities and social science students from the University of Saskatchewan South Africa Study Abroad Program visited the Museum. In a letter to the Curator, Dr Horwitz writes about the Confronting HIV/AIDS exhibition ‘… they learned a great deal from the way in which the medical text was approached and were fascinated by the social and medical links.’ (See attached letter at the end of the report.) PUBLICITY AND MARKETING The Wits and Museum website as well as other sites such as Jo’burg City website, Jozikids, newspaper articles, items on loan to film and theatre companies, continually advertise the Museum. In addition, publicity is received on radio stations relating to the Museum’s exhibitions and items of medical interest, PubMed, iPoint Marketing, Encounter SA, Tourism sites, Europa World of Learning, UMAC Worldwide Database of University Museums and Collections, Museums online, Facebook, SAMA (South African Museums Association) and SouthAfrica.com websites feature the Museum on a permanent basis. An article on the Museum appeared in the Financial Mail, 30 March 2012 as a place to visit in Johannesburg, as well as being featured in the Mail and Guardian newspaper supplement on Medical School, 5-12 April 2012. The Museum was also featured in the Beeld newspaper, 17 March 2012. The Museum was invited to showcase and advertise the Museum with a display and information table at the OSSA (Ophthalmological Society of South Africa) from 22 - 25 March 2012.

The Museum received extensive publicity during the Wits90 Treasures Exhibition which was held at the Wits Art Museum, from 20 September to 14 October 2012. The curator co-curated this exhibition. Hundreds of people visited the exhibition. The Museum displayed a BOTH cabinet respirator, Brenthurst clamp splint, Tabloid medicine chest, brass binocular microscope c1850 and two photographs by David Goldblatt from the series of photographs he took on asbestos. The exposure has brought many people to visit the Museum itself. Professor Helen Laburn, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) enjoying the Adler Museum’s Medicine Chest on display at the Wits90 Treasures Exhibition.

The Museum was open to the public on Heritage Day, 24

September, which formed part of the Wits90 Celebration where all museums on the Wits campus were open, free of charge, to the public. Museum staff gave tours throughout the day and received many first time visitors. Kate Turkington approached the Museum for information for a website to which she contributes interesting articles. Her write-up can be viewed on www.southafrica.net. The Turn-Around-Schools Programme at Wits invited the Museum to advertise its activities in their School Improvement News publication. A film company, Tin Rage Productions, commissioned by the SABC to produce a six part documentary 'Medical Errors', used the museum as their presenter’s location, and as programme links (July). The Museum also manages and stocks Faculty branded items of clothing and other items, which are purchased by students, staff and visitors to the Museum.

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EXHIBITIONS Florence Nightingale: Lady with the Lamp An exhibition on the founder of the nursing profession. September 2011 – March 2012 History of Cardiology A display co-inciding with the cardiology module in the Faculty’s teaching syllabus. Archival material and cardiology equipment and artefacts from the Museum’s collection complement the display together with material from the SA Heart Foundation. 10 April – 25 May 2012 WALE (Wits Art and Literature Experience) The Museum participated in the WALE (Wits Art and Literature Experience) festival from 9 - 12 May 2012 by holding the exhibition Meeting the Makers - Contemporary Craft in KwaZulu-Natal from the Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg. The exhibition remained on view for two months. 9 May – 30 June 2012 History of Tuberculosis 7 – 11 May 2012: The Museum participated in Health Sciences Week at the Sci-Bono Science Centre in Newtown by presenting the History of Tuberculosis exhibition. Staff also gave presentations throughout the 5 days. 28 May – 27 July 2012: The exhibition was on view in the Adler Museum to complement the Faculty teaching programme. Asbestosis: Wonder Fibre - Serial Killer An exhibition to co-incide with the Faculty’s teaching programme which was researched and designed by Jemima Cantrell, formerly of the NIOH and Professor Tony Cantrell. 28 May – 27 July 2012 Of Hominid and Humankind The Museum displayed this exhibition by Ingrid Gavshon to celebrate and commemorate the life and passing of the late Professor Phillip Vallentine Tobias. 18 June – 31 July 2012 Poliomyelits: Dread of Yesteryear This new and permanent exhibition was opened by Professor Barry Schoub on 14 August 2012. From 14 August Malaria in Context This popular exhibition is moved around the Museum throughout the year, but during the student teaching block (18 September – 2 November 2012) it is placed in a prominent area on the floor of the Museum. The exhibition was researched by Professor Maureen Coetzee, Director, Malaria Entomology Research Unit, School of Pathology, Wits; Dr Basil Brooke, Vector Control Reference Unit, NICD/NHLS & Malaria Entomology Research Unit, School of Pathology, Wits; Professor John Frean, Deputy Director, NICD/NHLS & School of Pathology, Wits and Dr Liz Thomson, General Director, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) South Africa, and curated by Rochelle Keene. The exhibition was sponsored by MSF. It encompasses the history of malaria, a clinical description of the disease, its prevention and treatment and its economic implication. From 26 July 2011 Rural Health Care: All Saints Hospital. Mthata, Eastern Cape All Saints Hospital in the Eastern Cape was run by missionaries from its early days. The images were taken by Dr Pauline Ingle in the 1960s and 1970s and contain images of patients, health education and activities, rural surgery and medicine, highlighting issues then and now. 13 – 17 August 2012

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ADCO Health Professionals Art Exhibition The 37th annual Adcock Ingram Health Professions Art Group Exhibition, opened on Wednesday 22 August 2012 with 144 artworks on display. 22 August – 13 September 2012 WITS90 Treasures Exhibition The Museum participated in this joint exhibition at the Wits Art Museum which showcased Wits’ treasures. The Museum was open to the public on Heritage Day, 24 September 2012 19 September – 14 October 2012 Highlights of the Adler Museum The Museum’s celebrated its 50

th anniversary with an exhibition on the history and highlights of the

Museum and an opening presentation by Dr Joseph Teeger, a 1951 Wits Medical School graduate. From 17 October 2012 HIV/AIDS: Nine Lives An exhibition donated to the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the University, initially displayed at the Constitutional Court and on loan to the Museum. October 2004 – December 2012 The A.R.T. Show: A Project of Make Art/Stop AIDS This exhibition, curated by David Gere PhD, Director, UCLA Art & Global Health Center, and Carol Brown, Art and Museum consultant, explores questions about antiretroviral treatment. It is a show about ART and A.R.T. An opening event will take place in 2013. From December 2012 EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES 2012 Guided tours were given to the following schools and interest groups: Wits Department of Nursing Education (January); St Martin’s School, The Ridge School, Wits first year Medical Students, CLTD staff induction tour (February); American International School, Home School, Pretoria, Tshwane University (March); Woodlands Primary School, Boksburg College, Radley Private School, Regents Park Primary School (May); Brescia House School, Reddam House (June); Summerhill Preparatory School, University of Johannesburg biomedical students, Laerskool Elandskraal, Wits School of Education tour, Our Parents’ Home (July); Regents Park School, Xingwenani Khakhana Primary School, Giyani, Hirsch-Lyons School (August); Alpha Primary School, Wits90 Heritage Day tour (September); St Katherine’s Preparatory School, Woodlands Primary School, Grayston Preparatory School, Thswane University, Kingsmead College (October); Saheti School (November). Health Science Week

The Museum was invited to participate in Health Science Week: Health & Hygiene, Nutrition, Environmental Health, Diseases, Water and Sanitation at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre from 7-11 May 2012. The Museum exhibited its History of Tuberculosis exhibition and provided talks, interactive worksheets and information on TB as well as promoting the Faculty of Health Sciences at Wits. A total of 4 411 learners from primary and high schools and 119 teachers attended the event. Staff member Sepeke Sekgwele with learners at Health Science Week

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AJ ORENSTEIN MEMORIAL LECTURE

Professor Karl von Holdt, Director of the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at Wits, delivered the annual AJ Orenstein Memorial Lecture on 29 October 2012. It was titled: "Towards the clinician-led management team: a strategy for fixing hospitals?"

Professor Von Holdt and a team put together by NALEDI looked at how to make the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital work over a period of about 10 years. He uncovered extraordinary information and did some groundbreaking research in the area. He, together with Professor Martin Smith and others, tried to transform the functioning of Professor Smith’s Surgical Unit. The project focused on replacing the fragmented and highly centralised silo system of management, dominated by administrators, with the delegation of considerable management powers to an integrated team led by clinicians. This produced systemic changes in the way the division functioned, with positive impact on clinical processes and patient care. The transformation strategy rested on a combination of clinical, managerial and sociological expertise. The demise of the attempt was devastating for the team involved. The audience engaged with Professor Von Holdt long after the well attended lecture had ended! The Citizen and Star newspaper both published articles on the lecture. The lecture was published in the December 2012 issue of the Adler Museum Bulletin.

SECURITY

The Museums security systems motherboard was damaged beyond repair during a power surge in February 2012. The Museum has been spared the cost of replacing the system by the costs being covered by Wits Campus Control. The Museum is most grateful.

MUSEUM ATTENDANCE FIGURES

2012 Individuals Tours Functions Meetings Total

January 433 74 158 19 684

February 310 198 115 87 710

March 239 72 195 165 671

April 218 5 0 52 275

May 320 112 277 10 719

June 229 150 20 43 442

July 232 454 55 8 749

August 287 269 678 20 1254

September 242 142 295 7 686

October 264 341 385 27 1017

November 207 100 113 99 519

December 67 0 450 0 517

Totals 3048 1917 2741 537 8243

Note: 4 411 learners and 119 teachers visited the Museum display

at Health Science Week at the Sci-Bono Centre (7-11 May)

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2011 Individuals Tours Functions Meetings Total

January 232 0 122 72 426

February 226 207 415 69 917

March 201 412 340 99 1052

April 166 70 187 51 474

May 257 109 440 88 894

June 212 92 435 56 795

July 233 153 270 19 675

August 243 370 674 44 1331

September 318 206 163 32 719

October 208 195 261 142 806

November 214 10 345 45 614

December 43 0 485 0 528

Totals 2553 1824 4137 717 9231

STAFF It was with great sadness that the Faculty and the University confirmed the passing of Professor Phillip Vallentine Tobias, a stalwart of the University and a world-renowned scientist, who died on 7 June 2012 in Johannesburg after a long illness. Professor Tobias was a member of the Board of Control of the Adler Museum from its inception and only retired from the Board in April 2012 due to ill health. Professor Tobias contributed extensively to the Adler Museum over many years and his enthusiasm, interest and humour, will be sorely missed. It was also sad to note the passing of another Board member, Mr Barney Sachs, on 26 March 2012. Mr Sachs was a long standing member of the Board and represented the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa. The curator, Rochelle Keene, co-curated the Wits90 Treasures Exhibition (19 September – 14 October) as part of Wits’ 90

th birthday celebration. She also contributed to the book Wits: 90 years of

Making History by Sue Krige, which was launched at the opening of the exhibition on 20 September 2012. Rochelle Keene contributed text to, and edited the publication History of Nursing Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg by Professor Simonne Horwitz, which was published to celebrate the 75

th anniversary of the Wits Department of Nursing Education.

Rochelle Keene also provided text and edited the exhibition and publication Confronting HIV/AIDS together with Professor Maria Papathanasopoulos, Co-Director: HIV Pathogenesis Research Laboratory and Genotyping Laboratory, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wits and Professor Simonne Horwitz, Department of History, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, School of Humanites, Wits. Rochelle Keene and Cheryl Cromie continue to publish the Health Sciences Review for the Faculty. Cheryl Cromie and Sepeke Sekgwele attended an ICOM-SA workshop, The Changing Role of Museums in the 21

st Century, on 24 February 2012 and a POLSA Heritage Crime Seminar in Pretoria

on 18 April 2012 Sepeke Sekgwele researched the text for the exhibition on the 50

th anniversary of the Museum, which

was also published in the Adler Museum Bulletin.

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THANKS Apart from the thanks recorded in this report, I wish to thank the Chairman of the Board, Professor Yosuf Veriava, for his enthusiastic support of the Museum and its staff, and for his continued understanding and appreciation of this unique Museum. Thanks are recorded to the Board members who have willingly served on the Board. The Museum continues to receive support and interest from many of the Schools and Departments within the Faculty, and the University, and our thanks are conveyed to them. Our thanks are also recorded to Mr Daniel Stewien and the Faculty’s Finance Department for their sterling support of the Museum in many ways. Finally, thanks to the Museum staff for their commitment, dedication and hard work during 2012. Rochelle Keene Curator February 2012

Report compiled by Cheryl-Anne Cromie

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DONATIONS 2012 DONOR DONATION

Professor Kenneth Boffard Complete set of brass weights in a wooden case

Department of Surgery

Faculty of Health Sciences

Mr H Lourens Medicine spoon

Professor Merryll Vorster Shield (University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Sciences)

Former Deputy Dean Maquette of Commemorative Sculpture by Lawrence Chait

Faculty of Health Sciences

Mr Allan Kaye Synoptophore

Synoptophore box of slides

Dr Christos Daras Ophthalmoscope

Mr Wilfred Tobiansky Victorian barber/dentist chair

Dr Etienne Jaques Vaginal speculum

5x Vaginal dilators

4x Needle holders

Michel clips

Reverdin needles in a box

Dr Ian Potgieter LP record: Abdominal decompression by Professor O Heyns

& acute respiratory failure by Professor Guy A Elliot

Hypodermic Needles

Dr Joseph Teeger Qray Electro-radioactive dry compressor

Mrs Gloria Tinker 2x Record syringes with needles

Urethrotome with needles

Spirit lamp

Dr Shashikant Kassen Lens implants samples

Aspirating cannula

Ophthalmic knife

Lachrymal intubation set

Mio-chol carbachol intraocular solution

2x Corneal trephines

Corneal topographer

Auto perimeter

Eye testing chart

4x Goniometers

Mr Patrick Chappel Vapo-cresolene inhaler

Mr Andrew Immelman Phlebotomy case

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Mrs AL Vorster Spinal support brace

Mr Martin Goldin Luer Syringe 50cc

Mr Jack Davines 2x syringe sets with ampoules

Dr Henry Leimann Heimann Silver salver to commemorate 25 years of service

Mrs Steffi Frese 2x Red Cross uniforms

*The late Professor Phillip Vallentine Tobias Bequest to Adler Museum: R3000

Herman Wald sculpture

Engraved cedarwood humidor

Medals, trophies, certificates and souvenirs bequethed

to Wits University and to be lodged in the Adler Museum

*Note: 47 donations from 18 donors were received in 2012

but this excludes the donation from the late Professor PV Tobias which is currently still being documented.

BOOKS, ARCHIVAL MATERIAL, ETC Ms Caterina Nicolaou Family of Dr Irving Lissoos Dr E Jaques South African Orthopaedic Association Mrs. Yvonne Asherson Dr Vivienne Berro Dr Tim Wilson Mrs Peggy La Trobe Dr Rose von Fintel