Gillies and Judd Family History
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 (By ‘Bad Bill’ and ‘Torca.’) (Warning – this article from 1903 is full of turn of the century prejudice and snide judgement presented as humour)...
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 of mental trouble, and one out of every 17 persons was said to be on his way to the Mental Hospital. In all seriousness, if...
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 that the frontal lobes (which are set in the forehead) were cut off from the rest of his brain. To everybody’s amazement Gage survived without any apparent trouble. He toured...
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 turned aside the strain to which De Maupassant subjected his brain during the past ten days, others as the result of a strange accident which...
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 some probable cause for such, but not in that which is stimulated and that, while the former is always sudden, the latter is seldom so....
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 kick from a horse on the right of the chin, followed a year later by a heavy fall from a bicycle on the right side...
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 and women who tried to enlist were rejected they were sent back to their communities and often arrested because they were not allowed to leave...
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 in cases of the sexually transmitted diseases syphilis and gonorrhoea. Syphilis is caused by the spirochete ”Treponema pallidum” and can lead, in its tertiary stage...
Growing up in the unsewered Melbourne suburbs of Bentleigh and later Moorabbin in the 1950s, I became accustomed to the delights of the outside lavatory – always known as the ‘dunny’. Our 1950s euphemism apparently derives from the ancient term ‘dunnekin’ which means an ‘earth closet’ or ‘cesspit’. Not happy with our perversion of...
Australian artist Norman Lindsay produced many anti-German drawings and cartoons as well as posters for the 1916 Conscription campaign (before learning of the death of his brother at the Western Front in France). Early in 1917 Norman had heard that his brother Reginald had been killed on the Somme and he later received...
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