Corporate Body

Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (1863 - )

From
1863
Functions
Hospitals or Clinics
Alternative Names
  • Eye and Ear Infirmary (Former name)
  • Melbourne Institute for Diseases of the Eye and Ear (Former name)
Website
http://www.eyeandear.org.au/

Summary

The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital opened in 1863 as the Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 2013, it celebrated 150 years as Australia's only specialist eye, ear, nose and throat hospital.

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Archival resources

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

  • Graeme Clark/bionic ear collection [National Film and Sound Archive of Australia], 1956 - 2009; National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Department of Otolaryngology - Bionic Ear Records, 1949 - 2000, 2004.0043 at U77/46-55; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

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Resources

See also

  • Dyason, D., 'The medical profession in colonial Victoria, 1834 - 1901' in Disease, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion, Macleod, Roy and Lewis, Milton, eds (London: Routledge, 1988), pp. 194-216. Details

Digital resources

Title
Audiologist Richard Dowell tests first Cochlear patient Graham Carrick
Type
Image
Date
1982
Source
Graeme Clark

Details

Title
Graeme Clark holding the mini-implant developed by Cochlear Ltd
Type
Image
Date
1985
Source
Graeme Clark

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