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Haurongo: Smirk, Frederick Horace

Frederick Horace Smirk

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Frederick Horace Smirk

As a professor at the University of Otago Medical School Horace Smirk discovered a drug that could control high blood pressure. This joke photograph of him with a laboratory rat peering over his shoulder alludes to his reputation as a medical researcher.

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Otago Daily Times

Permission of the Otago Daily Times must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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A. W. Beasley. 'Smirk, Frederick Horace', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2000. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/2408/frederick-horace-smirk (accessed 4 June 2026).