The Physician as Artisan - Chapters in the History of Medicine from Antiquity until the Renaissance
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The museum is based on The Rosenberg Collection established in 1980 by Professor Lior Rosenberg, head of the Plastic Surgery Department at the Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva. The collection includes more than 5,000 items, among them medical instruments and tools, engravings and books, masks and votives. The various stages in the development of medicine are dramatized through the use of a selection of these items, illustrations, slides and photographs.
On View at Museum
- Introduction & contributors
- Medicine from Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Prehistory, witchcraft and circumcision
- Circumcision, folk medicine & tradition
- Greco-Roman medicine and medical instruments
- Antique Pharmacy and mortars
- Early Arab surgery
- Jewish medicine (Rambam)
- Diagnosis (Uroscopy, Phrenology, Astrology, Observation, Auscultation)
- Treatment (enemas, amputation, surgery, and birth-control)
- Surgery: General Surgery, Anesthesia
- Surgical Instruments, reconstructive surgery
- The Physician, Medical Ethics and Education
- Medicine in Early Israel
One Museum, Four Galleries
The Physician as Healer and Scientist - Developments in Modern Medicine
The Physician, Medical Ethics and Education
Medicine in early Israel
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