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Sydney G.S. and W.C.; M.A., M.D. (Melb.), M.R.C.P. (London);President Vict. Branch B.M.A., President Section Hygiene A.A.A.S. 1895 and I.M.C. 1896, First President Royal Viet. Train ed Nurses' Assoc., and of Aust. Massage Assoc., Official Visitor Metropolitan Asylums, and Knight of Grace Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Lecturer on Therapeutics and on Clinical Medicine 1887-1915; sometime Dean of Faculty of Dentistry; In-Patient Physician Melb. Hospital 1887-1915. A.A.M.C., Lieut.-Col. October 1914; December 1914-March 1916 Senior Physician No. 2 A.G.H.; Officer i/c Mena Hospital three months; Chairman Board of Inquiry into sickness among A.I.F. in Egypt; Inquiry into Red Cross administration in Egypt and Gallipoli; Officer i/c Red Cross work on H.M.T.S. Ulysses on return to Australia January - March 1916; S.M.O. Orsova on return to Egypt March-May 1916; supernumerary M.O., then Senior Physician, No. 3 A.G.H. May-June 1916; invalided to Alexandria and England July-November 1916; November 1916-December 1918 Senior Physician No. 3 A.A.H. Dartford; Representative for Aust. Inter-allied Conference London May 1918; Vice-President Lond on Branch of Imperial League Returned Soldiers and Sailors; special duty H.M.T.S. Nestor on return to Australia January-March 1919. Demob. May 1919.
Publications
Therapeutics, Dietetics and Hygiene: An Australian textbook in two volumes with a chapter on psychotherapy, 1914, from ADB
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Supportive of the professional training and registration of a number of medical disciplines, including the Royal Victorian Trained Nurses Association and the Masseurs Registration Board (predecessor to physiotherapy), as well as dentistry—becoming the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Melbourne in 1924. He took a leading role in establishing the Victorian branch of the British Medical Association, was actively involved in the regular gatherings of the Intercolonial Medical Congress of Australasia (renamed Australasian Medical Congress in 1905). He championed reforms in the treatment of the insane and the use of psychological therapies. He also continued to publish articles in the Medical Journal of Australia on war neuroses and psychology. In one such article published in 1919 Springthorpe passionately advocated that: 'no teaching hospital can leave psychology, any more than physiology, out of the curriculum, no teaching hospital can remain without its psychological department, and no up-to-date medical practitioner can leave this priceless talent buried in the dust of ignorance and fight his battle against disease with this, his right arm, tied behind his back'. ADB