SMSA (Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts)
Date
Friday, 17 August 2018
Time
6.00pm for 6:30-7:30pm
Light refreshments will be served before each lecture
Cost
$15 – SMSA Members and Royal Society Members/Fellows
$20 – Non-Members and Guests
Archive:
Wine was first developed 9,500 years ago in China and has been used as a medicine for the past 5,000 years.
Join Dr Philip Norrie as he traces the medical history of wine and its unique history in Australia, including where and when the first vineyard was planted in Australia.
Dr Norrie will investigate the reason Australia had so many ‘Wine Doctors’ — such as Dr. Lindeman and Dr. Penfold — who have become household names; how wine was used to help transport convicts to Australia; and why vineyards where planted in our lunatic asylums —something that did not happen anywhere else, except in Australia!
Guest Speaker — Dr Philip Norrie
Dr. Philip Norrie is a GP in Sydney with a special interest in Medical History — mankind’s struggle against extinction.
This talk is co-presented by the Royal Society of NSW and the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts.
| This is a Sydney Science Festival event, part of National Science Week
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