Tonsils to Toenails: the life of Pat Cotter, Christchurch surgeon and tree farmer
Written by Claire Le Couteur, this is a biography of Pat Cotter, not only a respected surgeon and later a successful tree farmer in his retirement, but also an avid collector of medical memorabilia now stored at the Cotter Medical History Museum in Christchurch.
‘A highly satisfactory biography’– Dr Geoffrey Rice
Price: $25 plus $8 postage
Scalpels to Keyholes: A history of general surgery at Christchurch Hospital 1862-2022
Written by Claire Le Couteur, this book traces the development of surgery at Christchurch Hospital since the hospital opened in 1862 to the present day.
‘A fascinating account of surgical personnel, surgical trends and incidents over the past 160 years’ – Dr Richard Acland, retired Anaesthetist
Price: $40 plus $8 postage
COWARD: Christchurch’s Controversial Coroner: the Life of John William Smith Cowatd (1815-88)
Written by Geofffrey Rice, this is a biography of Christchurch’s longest-serving coroner, from 1861 to 1886. Dr Coward ordered the first exhumation in Christchurch and was criticised for awarding autopsies to his favourite doctors. He was also treasurer to the Philosophical Institute and a governor of Canterbury College, deciding on the earliest buildings of what is now the Arts Centre of Christchurch.
Price: $30 plus $8 postage
NEDWILL: New Zealand’s Outstanding Public Health Pioneer
Written by Geoffrey W. Rice, this is a biography of Courtney Nedwill, once Christchurch’s most admired and most reviled doctor. He was admired as a caring GP and a careful surgeon, but mainly for his work as Medical Officer of Health, 1879-1885, getting rid of cess-pits and other ‘nuisances’ while the sewers were being built.
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FRANKISH: The Rise and Fall of a Prominent Christchurch Physician: the Life of John David Frankish MD (1842-1913)
Written by Geoffrey Rice this is a biography of one of Christchurch’s leading medical men of the nineteenth century. Frankish helped found the Canterbury Medical Society and was its president in 1883. He was a leading figure in the Acclimatisation Society and was a well-known advocate of a railway to the West Coast.
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Written by Geoffrey W. Rice, this book has a richly varied account of what interested New Zealand doctors in the late nineteenth century. From advertising and smallpox vaccination to cures for constipation and TB, the use of electricity and antiseptics, and the 1891-3 influenza pandemic.
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Christchurch’s Dodds Pharmacy in Merivale was well known to many until its change of owner and name in 2016. This book follows the lives and businesses of the Dodds’ family of chemists since 1877 from Port Chalmers to Akaroa and finally to Christchurch.
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From Southland to Surgery: A Journey Around Values
An autobiography written by Christchurch surgeon, John Bower Morton. John’s story traverses his early life in Southland, his experiences in kidney transplant surgery and in teaching medical students at Christchurch’s Clinical School.
Price: $30 plus $8 postage
Written by Kerry Swanson, this is a history of the Stephen Clark and Cotter Museum collections of Microscopes.
Price: $35 plus $8 postage
Vaccines & Vesicles: a History of Smallpox Vaccination in New Zealand
Written by Claire Le Couteur, this is the somewhat alarming story of how smallpox vaccine was manufactured in New Zealand in the nineteenth century.
Price: $25 plus $8 postage
A Scientific Welsh Eye Surgeon: The short life of Llewellyn Powell MD (1843-79) Christchurch’s first Public Health Medical Officer
Written by Geoffrey Rice, this is a biography of Christchurch’s first Medical Officer of Health and an important public health pioneer in New Zealand.
Price: $30 plus $8 postage
Camphor for the Collywobbles: Ship’s Surgeon Dr Augustus Florance’s voyages 1857-1862
Written by Claire Le Couteur, this book contains transcripts of Dr Florance’s medical shipboard diaries of two of his voyages, illustrated with a discussion on nineteenth century medicine as practised by him and notes on his life in St Albans, Christchurch.
Price: $30 plus $8 postage
Silent Treasures Tell Their Stories
Written by H Bramwell Cook, is a record of selected Museum artefacts.
Price: $35 plus $8 postage
Historia Nunc Vivat: Medical Practitioners in New Zealand 1840 to 1930
Pills & Potions: At the Cotter Medical History Trust
Written by Claire Le Couteur, is a record of selected Museum items.
Price: $20 plus $8 postage
