Next stop: the medical museum, very small actually, only one floor
got headache? make a hole in your head to let out bad liquids.
sick? let out a flow of blood to recover
some other quack remedies
'in the early 20th century, it was thought that drinking radioactive water was healthy, the lion pharmacy lent this preparator to the Sahlgrenska hospital'
olden day pharmacy, the guy mixes his own concoction from a doctor's prescription. Looks alot like chinese herbal shops today.
special display: Glass jars from Russia
during the WWII a red cross expedition to Russia went to famine areas. after the death of one of the Red cross leaders who went there, jars of stuff were discovered in his lab, containing grass, mud, bark, bone and leather: samples of what the starving ate instead of food.
zapping patients
dentist
eye for an eye
psychiatric ward chair
after that all i can say is i'm glad to be living in this modern age. probably someone will be saying the same thing 100 years from now.
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