STENO MUSEET


		HISTORY OF MEDICINE - from Antiquity to modern times
	Caduceus	From the earliest times people have tried to help the diseased and the wounded. In Babylon and Egypt attempts at surgery as well as medicine were made as early as 1500 BC. The medical papyri contain several recipes of medicine against the diseases of that time. At the same time diseases were thought to be provoked by evil spirits, gods and violation of taboo. Therefore, magic and witch craft played a decisive role in the treatment. The Greeks - especially the medical school around Hippocrate about 400 BC - were the first to seek a natural explanation of medical diseases. Not until the Renaissance, however, the development started that, through studies of the human anatomy, the discovery of the microscope, and later on physiological and chemical research, resulted in the great knowledge of the many refined processes of the human body, which now forms the basis of modern medicine.


		Equipment and interiors from the history of medicine
	The exhibition on tuberculosis	The exhibition on the history of medicine, which mainly contains objects from after 1800, is divided in two parts. One part is arranged traditionally with an exhibition of artefacts, text and pictures, which gives a chronological outline of the development of medicine from ancient times to the present.
	Consulting room	The other part contains a series of interiors which is characteristic of various periods: a consulting room, a dental clinic with a pedal driven drill, an operating theatre from around WW1 and an old pharmacy. There is also a collection of early equipment for anaesthesia and x-ray examination.

The Steno Museum, C.F. Møllers Alle 2, Bldg. 1100, DK-8000 Århus C
Phone: +45 89 42 39 75, E-mail: stenomuseet@si.au.dk