The Rough Guide to London by Rob Humphreys

Author:Rob Humphreys [Humphreys, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Travel
ISBN: 9781843539230
Goodreads: 2680369
Publisher: Rough Guides Limited
Published: 1995-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Floors 4 and 5

If old-fashioned displays are more your thing, head for Glimpses of Medical History on Floor 4. The exhibition features an attractive series of dioramas of medical operations, and larger mock-ups of surgeries and dentists’ and chemists’ premises through the ages, starting with Neolithic trepanning and finishing up with the gore-free spectacle of an open-heart operation c.1980.

Even more fascinating (but equally old-fashioned) is Wellcome’s Science and Art of Medicine gallery on Floor 5. Using an anthropological approach, this is a visual and cerebral feast, galloping through ancient medicine, medieval and Renaissance pharmacy, alchemy, quack doctors, royal healers, astrology and military surgery. Offbeat artefacts include African fetish objects, an Egyptian mummy, numerous masks, an eighteenth-century Florentine model of a female torso giving birth and George Washington’s dentures.

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