10 museums that every medical student or doctor needs to know

If you are studying medicine or doctor you are, this list of 10 most bizarre museums medicine, you seem really interesting, a good list to any physician or medical student plan a vacation based on these museums

1. Vrolik Museum, Netherlands

Founded by Professor Gerardus Vrolik and his son Professor Willem Vrolik. The museum is a huge private collection in which you can find over 5000 specimens with congenital anomalies preserved in jars of formaldehyde. The museum exposed babies and dead animals with deformations in different parts of the body, from human skeletons to children with 2 heads. Also worth mentioning that body parts and human heads are also presented.

2. Bart's Pathology Museum, Great Britain

As a university collection began in 1879, this exclusive exhibition of medical oddities is part of the acquis Queen Mary, University of London. Among the nearly 5,000 specimens are several objects taken from human bodies over the past 150 years as a toothbrush stuck in the esophagus someone. Also included in the exhibition dissected parts of the murderer John Belingham body, among other relics dating from the eighteenth century.

3. Museum of Medical History in Berlin, Charité, Germany

It is a museum containing fragments of the German medical history, among which we can find a bladder stones 1700, a mega colon weight of 27 kilos, various tumors and chair of delivery. It also shows the darker side, teaching the Nazis applied science to prove that Jews should be removed.

 

4. Fragonard Museum, France

The Musée Fragonard, full of curiosity, opened in 1902 and closed in 1990 for renovations, which lasted until 2008. At first it was a collection of anatomy for veterinary students. So far everything is normal except when we find disturbing shelving cases, as bodies flayed by Honoré Fragonard in the eighteenth century, among which we see horses, monkeys and even human fetuses.

               

5. Korean Choowondang Museum of Medicine, South Korea

Details the history of the Korean medicine, was opened in 2008, within a medical center dating from the nineteenth century. It exhibits from kits and documents to a laboratory producing herbal medicines, with gleaming metal cylinders that shine through the glass walls.

   

6. Parasitological Megurum Museum (Japan)

It began when the doctor Saturus Kamegai began teaching the parasites after World War II, to raise awareness. Two floors devoted entirely to show all kinds of parasites, some very rare. The 72 specimens result in one of the most interesting museums of medicine in the world, with two floors dedicated solely to thousands of crawling (which eat away) parasites.

7. Museum of human diseases, Australia

This educational museum helps you to "know your enemy", presenting over 2,000 examples of past and present human diseases. It is a very explicit museum that shows no fear over two thousand diseases, including tuberculosis, ovarian tumor and infected with mad cow disease brain.

 

8. Museum Plastinarium, Germany

The exhibition uses the bodies of people who have paid in life and give your consentimiento.Los bodies, before becoming part of the museum, are treated in a special way. They removes fat and fluids, which are replaced by a talk substance. In the museum you can see a variety of sculptures of dead bodies

9. Museum of Medical Maude Abbott, Canada (Collection Osler)

A diverse collection of approximately 150 bodies from the late nineteenth century is the biggest attraction of this Canadian academic museum. The only problem is still not open to visitors. The museum is, for the moment, visible only by internet, and features images and information of the collection, however, McGill University seeks to create a space for physical display wide range of guts, skeletons, books Records autopsy and pathological samples

10. Basque History of Medicine Museum, Spain

Has a rich collection of doctors and scientists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries objects, which have been used by doctors, hospitals and other institutions of the Basque Country. Most of the exhibits are French, German and other European countries. Preserved and over 6,000 pieces of all medical specialties and other scientific disciplines is. Organized thematically into 24 rooms dedicated to different disciplines and medical specialties.