The Gist of a Tryst with a Cyst
HYDATIDS When I first came to live in the Derwent Valley in Tasmania in the mid 1970s, and as a dog owner, I was surprised...
Author: pjg
The Blossoming of Possuming
Warning: This article contains much mid 19th century Australian racism and prejudice. BLACKFELLOWS OPOSSUM HUNTING Opussum hunting is one of the most popular of our...
Some Glum Slum Chums
SYDNEY’S SQUALID SLUMS ROUND WHERE THE GRIMY MEN LURK Rabbit-O!, Bottle-O! and Beer-O!, An Embryo Major Taylor With Mammy’s Beer, A Battler From Out Back...
Looney Toons
Insanity Over Air I have read astounding figures on insanity in America. Almost one in every five of an Army call up was rejected for reasons...
Iron Man …Bar None
In 1840 Phineas Gage, a railway worker, had a crowbar thrust through his head by accident. The crowbar pierced Gage’s skull from temple to temple, severing the tissue of his brain so...
A sigh for sly, awry Guy
THE INSANITY OF GENIUS Poor Guy de Maupassant, the foremost living realistic romancist of the French school. One would fain hope that the hand that...
Nuts and klutz struts
FEIGNED INSANITY Several rules have been given by medico-psychologists for the discovery of feigned insanity. One is that in real mental aberration, there is generally...
Operation Trephine
AN OPERATION CURES INSANITY A remarkable cure of insanity by operation described in the “Lancet” by Dr. Bernard Hollander. His patient, a doctor, received a...
Best We Forget?
In Australia, during World War I, the Defence Act (1903) excluded people who were not substantially of European origin or descent from enlisting. When Aboriginal men...
The Red Plague – The Wowser’s Monstrous Pet
In 2017, data from the Melbourne Sexual Health Clinic (which has operated continuously since it opened in 1918) shows Melbourne is facing a rapid increase...