Čáslav City Hospital Celebrates 130 Years: An Anniversary Exhibition The General Hospital in Čáslav celebrates its 130th Anniversary in 2024. The Emperor Franz Josef I. Public District Hospital was built in the Jenikov suburb of the Čáslav town between 1893 and 1894, replacing a small city hospital, no longer able to provide for the growing population. […]
Object of the Month: May 2024 “A Midwife’s Amulet” At the end of April 1945, shortly before the liberation of Czechoslovakia and only a few days before his death, the gynecologist and numismatist Antonín Mastný (1875-1945) donated to the Medical Museum, “to honor the memory of Professor Emil Zikmund,” a pendant of silver chains and a thaler, decorated by […]
NML Medical Museum at 90 Lékařské muzeum Československé zdravotnické muzeum Zdravotnické muzeum Národní lékařské knihovny 1934-2024 The Medical Museum of the National Medical Library, founded as the Museum of Physicians (Lékařské muzeum) in 1934, celebrates incredible 90 years. Moving locations and changing names, it has persevered, rich in its unique collections, the creativity of its […]
From Smallpox to COVID: Vaccination in the Czech Lands Medical Museum Exhibition The small exhibition From Smallpox to COVID introduces the history of vaccination from Edward Jenner and the Empress Maria Theresia, through the struggle of doctors and public health specialist with tuberculosis and postwar vaccination campaigns to the vaccines defeating the COVID-19 pandemic. Visitors […]
Atmos Instrument Set (ATMOS Gesellschaft Fritzsching & Co.): distributed by the Brüder Čížek Co., Prague
Forehead lamp attached to a spectacle frame, early 20 century. From the estate of MUDr. Jiří Balý, pneumologist in Šumperk (1956-2021). NML Medical Museum, P 292
Object of the Month: December 2022 Christmas Eve Menu, The Economical Cook Book of Prague (1819) For December 2022, we chose the most popular cookbook of the Austrian Monarchy at the beginning of the 19 century and a few of the Christmas recipes it recommends. Die wirthschaftliche Prager Köchinn, welche nach einem eigenen Speiszettel für jeden […]
Object of the Month: July 2022 Theriac From the Exhibition Plagues 1521-2021 in the NML Medical Museum Stoneware medicinal jar inscribed with Elect[uarium] theriac[a] in the Museum collection, was made from early 20 century Germany. Theriac, a universal remedy to cure both illness and poisoning and secure lasting health, is normally associated with more remote […]
Gregor Johann Mendel and His Greens: for the 200 Anniversary On July 20, 2022, we commemorate 200 years from the birth of the founder of genetics, the Moravian naturalist Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884). After studies in Brno and Olomouc, Mendel, an Augustinian monk, took his priestly vows, but he showed greater interest in scientific work […]
Object of the Month: June 2022 Cautery to Stop Haemorrhage and to Cure Plague From the Exhibition Plagues 1521-2021 in the NML Medical Museum Quae medicamenta non sanant, ferrum sanat. Quae ferrum non sanat, ignis sanat. Quae vero ignis non sanat, insanabilia reputari oportet. That which medicines cannot cure, iron [knife] cures. That which […]