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GALLERY
France, 21 C.
Vintage Pharmacy ("Gründerzeit Apotheke"), diorama. Made by French miniaturist Jean Jacques Brisson. Diorama represents a fragment of the interior of an vintage pharmacy about end of 19th century in a glazed box with wall-hanger, integrated into an elegant wooden frame. In the pharmacy there is a presentation cabinet (cupboard) with albarelli (jars) with inscriptions of medicinal substances, the lower part of the cabinet has nine drawers with bronze handles and inscriptions. Next to the cabinet is the pharmacist's workplace, kind of a bureau of drawers with doors and lockers. On the working surface of bureau, pharmacist's scales, mortar and pestle, prescription, pharmacy shop rounds without stoppers, and other containers with substances are placed in a businesslike disorder.
MUSEUM
Hungary, Budapest
The Hungarian people are proud of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818–1865), born in Pest to a catholic German family, the discoverer of the cause of childbed fever – fatal infectious complications in women in labor, and introduced effective measures of it's prevention in 1846. In his honour, the building where he was born in 1818 now houses a museum of the history of medicine bearing his name, which tells not only about Dr. Semmelweis, but also provides a multifaceted illustration of the main milestones in the development of European and world medicine. The remarkable permanent exhibition is complemented by regularly updated temporary exhibitions.