The permanent exhibition "Medicine in Serbia through centuries" is located in the building of the Belgrade hospital built in the 19th century, at 19 George Washington Street. Skeletal remains, pathological preparations, medical instruments, devices and apparatus testify to the diagnostics processes and treatments of various diseases.
At the exhibition, you can find out how old surgical instruments differ from today's, who founded the first hospitals in Serbia, what the "magic formulas" were for, how blood transfusions were performed in the past, how tuberculosis was treated before the discovery of drugs against Koch's bacillus, etc. Also, you can find out why the 19th century is considered the golden age of medicine, when penicillin was introduced into medical practice in Serbia, who performed the first heart surgery in Serbia, why the first test tube baby was born in England.
The exhibition gives you the opportunity to get to know the personalities of the most meritorious Serbian doctors who, in this very building, which is now the seat of the Serbian Medical Association, treated patients using new drugs and operative methods. The oldest exhibit at the exhibition is the ulna with a healed fracture of a Cro-Magnon, who lived 7,000 years ago.
The permanent exhibition "Medicine in Serbia through the ages" is located in the building of the Serbian Medical Association, at 19 George Washington Street.
Contact
Jelena Jovanović Simić, Senior curator
jelena.simic@muzejnt.rs
