This year’s new addition is “THE HEROES OF MEDICINE: Padua’s First Hospital, from Vesalius to Morgagni”, a new exhibition dedicated to the Museum of Medicine and the ancient hospital of San Francesco Grande, created specifically for the MusMe in Padua, which aims to explain the importance that Padua’s hospital has had and continues to have in the history of world medicine, in conjunction with the University and the Botanical Gardens.
From an amusing Dr Balanzone who rambles on with a young 16th-century medical student, the narrative moves on to the founder of Padua’s first hospital, ‘San Francesco Grande’, Sibilia De Cetto.
Between the 16th and 17th centuries, numerous prominent figures in the history of medicine appear in turn, such as Vesalius and Harvey, during the period when Galileo Galilei taught in Padua (from 1592 to 1610).
Next came the plague doctor, a fascinating and historic Paduan ‘speziala’, and in the 18th century Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), famous for laying the foundations of modern pathological anatomy… right up to the unexpected conclusion of this journey through medicine and science!
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