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AT the International Congress of the History of Medicine, held at Madrid on September 23-29, under the patronage of the President of the Spanish Republic, there was an exhibition of medical manuscripts, documents, instruments, etc. The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum contributed some interesting illustrations and objects to this exhibition. Among these were illustrations of Arabian surgical instruments from early fourteenth century manuscripts; examples of the medical and other works of Maimonides, the Hispano-Jewish philosopher and physician of the twelfth century; replicas of the earliest MSS. of the life of Andres Laguna, physician to Charles V and Pope Julian III; Roman, medieval, Hindu and modern surgical instruments; historical objects such as Egyptian artificial eyes, anatomical models, and a special section devoted to the evolution of spectacles. Part of the Museum's exhibit comprised interesting dioramas including Nicholas Monardes of Seville (1512-88) depicted working in his private museum of curiosities; a historic incident connected with the discovery of cinchona bark as a remedy for malaria (1630); a thirteenth century apothecary's shop in Cordova (Fig. 1); and an interior view of the hospital of Santa Cruz at Toledo as it appeared in the sixteenth century.
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History of Medicine Congress at Madrid. Nature 136, 577–578 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136577d0
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