Section of Room XVIII
Therapy and preventive care
Therapy and preventive care
Objects and devices for home medical care, from the traditional collection of small bottles of ointments and medicines to the most recent apparatuses for self-administered electrotherapy.
Objects
Balance
Inv. 816
Giovanni Savoi, Florence, 1766
Clarke medical magneto-electrical machine
Inv. 3547
Maker unknown, second half 19th cent.
Duchenne's medical magneto-electrical machine
Inv. 456
Deleuil firm, Paris, ca. 1870
Lane electrometer on Leyden jar
Inv. 446
Maker unknown, late 18th cent.
Pharmacy jars
Dep. OSMN, Firenze
Maker unknown, 19th cent.
Portable pharmacy
Inv. 3752
Maker unknown, late 18th cent.
Portable pharmacy
Inv. 3814
Maker unknown, late 18th cent. - early 19th cent.
Portable plate electrical machine
Inv. 374
Maker unknown, second half 18th cent.