Museo delle arti sanitarie
The Museum of sanitary arts (Museo delle arti sanitarie) is located inside the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Naples. It hosts several ancient medical instruments:
the doctor's beak, used during pestilences by physicians in order to protect themselves;
a seventeenth century removable mannequin made up of papier-machè;
a dummy of Pulcinella (the typical Neapolitan mask) with an egg inside and rats outside, which is an allegory of the black death;
an old mechanical prosthesis;
a cup used by puerperant women;
surgical instruments used for lithotomy and anaesthesia;
a shaver with tortoiseshell handle;
several manuscripts, some of them were written by the famous surgeon and botanist Domenico Cirillo.
- Photos by Piergiorgio Turco (November 2011)
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Related items:
- Domenico Cotugno's bust
- First Italian removable public toilet
- Homeopathy Historical Section
- Luciano Armanni's portrait