My Impressions After Visiting The Inter

My impressions after visiting The International Museum of Surgical Science By Cristina Vacaru The International Museum of Surgical Science ,the City of Chicago Landmark,is the only museum specifically dedicated to medical surgery in North America and it is the only one open to the public.After visiting this fascinating museum it came to my knowledge that this museum was founded in 1954 by Dr. Max Thorek ,a Hungarian doctor whose innovative work in obstetrics and reconstructive surgery impacted medical science greatly with many of his techniques. On the first floor of the Museum I could visit the Early American Apothecary Shop and I was impressed to see many rows of patent medicines,a very old prescription book and also old tools used for making pills,such as pill tile,pill cutters,or pill rolling boards.Near to the Apothecary Shop are a dental office and an exhibit on patent medicines. In honor to great scientists and surgeons of the past,two distinguished exhibits were installed on the second floor of the museum:the Hall of Murals and the Hall of Immortals.
The Hall of Murals is a grand room with decorative paneling.The Italian painter Gregorio Calvi di Bergolo painted 12 mural panels in oils for this room to illustrate the development of surgery throughout the ages.One mural depicts Andreas Vesalius,the father of anatomy,showing his famous De Humani Corporis Faberica Libri Septem(Seven Books on the Structure of the Human Body) to Emperor Charles v of Spain.This book was the first complete book of anatomy.