Luogo - Museum
MUSEO STORICO NAZIONALE DELL'ARTE SANITARIA
Where
LUNGOTEVERE IN SASSIA, 3, Roma
The museum is located in the wing of the Hospital seventeenth-century Santo Spirito in Sassia. And 'one of a kind, and documents with accuracy the path that slowly brought the medicine, surgery and pharmacology from the scope of the original magic than science. It was inaugurated in 1933.
The salt is made medicine over the centuries, from Imperial Rome to the present, through objects, books, tools that are served to the doctors of the past.
The exposed material is divided by collections (Capparoni, Ovio, Solinas, Carbonelli).
The museum is completed the reconstruction of a pharmacy and a laboratory biblioteca.Negli a rich and ancient exhibits, visitors who are interested in the history of medicine can find a detailed documentation not only of art but also of obstetric surgical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as the diseases that have affected men in the past. For the visitor, less specialized, the objects speak the language of singular curiosity.
