October 28, 1918 in the Diary of Professor Vladimír Bergauer The birth of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 intersected with everyday lives of Czech people in many different ways. The Medical Museum collection preserve a student diary of Vladimír Bergauer (1898-1942) later Associate Professor of General Biology at the Czech Medical Faculty in Prague, Director of […]
Learn from the Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Health Patrols to Keep our Schools Clean and Healthy School Red Cross „Health Patrol“ propaganda poster, early 1950s (Printed by North Bohemia Print Works, Liberec) In the early 1950s the Czechoslovak Red Cross became a mass organization, as well as a part of the state-controlled healthcare system. The […]
Wooden washboard Hot summer days call for an object linked to water. History of hygiene cannot be separated from the history of medicine and health. The Medical Museum collections include multiple washbasins, chamber pots or toilet sets, as well as a wooden washboard from the Vysočina (Czech-Moravian Highlands) region, dating from the late 1800s. Grooved wooden […]
Inkstand used by Dr. Anna Honzáková MUDr. Anna Honzáková (1875-1940) was the first woman graduate of the Czech Medical Faculty in Prague, on March 17, 1902. In 1895 she graduated from the first women’s high school in Central Europe, the Minerva High School in Prague. She applied to the Czech Medical Faculty, but was denied […]
Eye Forceps after Johann Nepomuk Fischer The small iris forceps, used above all for surgical creation of an artificial pupil (coromorphosis) was designed by Professor Johann Nepomuk Fischer (1777- 1847), the founder and the first Chair of the Ophthalmological Clinic in Prague (1818). In these days, the Department of Ophthalmology of the First Faculty of […]
The Manuscript of “Equine Medicine” (Lékařství koňská) The National Medical Library Rare Prints Collection, held in the Medical Museum, includes a number of manuscript texts on both human and veterinary medicine. Transcriptions of medieval and early modern recipes are often complemented from other sources and empirical knowledge of readers and copyists. The anonymous manuscript on Equine […]
Z Vašich posledních darů Zdravotnickému muzeu vybíráme Souprava pro vyšetření hrtanu podle A.F. von Tröltsche, vyrobil Hynek Stelzig, Praha, kolem 1880 Živočišné uhlí Eucarbon na střevní potíže, vyrobil F. Trenka, Wien, kolem 1915 Zubotechnický modelovací vosk IMO, vyrobil Jan Motyčka-Dentochemia, Hradec Králové, 1936-1948
Tin Hot Water Bottle, 18 – early 19 Century Containers for bed warming have been known in Europe since 1520s. Hot water bottles covered with fabric and placed on the body, were introduced in the 18 century: the earliest evidence of a tin hot water bottle comes from 1694. Often made of tin, later copper, brass […]
Midwife diploma of Anna Semerad, Prague, 1882 The Medical Faculty supervised the competence of midwives since the 1651 decree of Ferdinand III. Since 1748, future midwives had to pass an examination before the Dean and two senior professors. This ordinance applied at first to Prague and later to all cities, since 1804 the Faculty examined […]