Corporate Body

Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (1961 - )

From
1 January 1961
Functions
Hospitals or Clinics, Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology
Website
http://www.eyeandear.org.au/

Summary

The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital succeeded the Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in January 1961 when "Royal" was added to its name. It's earliest predecessor was the Eye and Ear Institute which opened in 1863. Australia's only specialist eye, ear, nose and throat hospital, in 2013 the Hospital celebrated 150 years of continuous service since the Institute was established.

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 1873 - 1961 Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
       1961 - Royal Victorian Eye and Ear 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

Published resources

Books

  • Donovan, P. F., An ornament to the city: the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (East Melbourne: Royal Victorian Eye and ear Hospital, 1992), 265 pp. Details
  • Gardiner, Lyndsay, The eye and ear: The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital centenary history (Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens, 1968), 114 pp. Details

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

Details

Jack Roberts

Created: 5 September 2016, Last modified: 6 November 2025

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