2024-02-12 22:34:00
Guadalajara Jalisco.
Would you like to see with your own eyes the chair of the Friar of the Skull, or the first team that reached Guadalajara to do electroconvulsive therapy or pioneer team in Mexico to do an electroencephalogram?
Would you like to see the first dental X-ray device in Latin America?
In addition to dozens of fetuses with malformations? A heart or a human brain, you can find all that in the Museum of Medicine that since 1992 has gathered objects that tell the history of medicine not only of the Western region of the country, but also of the bicentennial and meritorious Civil Hospital of Guadalajara.
The president of the Cultural Association of the Fray Antonio Alcalde Civil Hospital, Ramon Sigala Arellano, details how the museum is made up:
“It is divided into several sections, where we are right now is a section that is dedicated to Dr. Mario Rivas Souza since he donated his private collection that he had in medical school and donated it to the cultural association.
And that is why here we have both the weapons, the bullets that were used in some crimes, some microscopes and a collection of fetuses with some congenital disorder.”
The Museum of Medicine has several exhibitions that reflect the passage of time and evolution of medicine, they have almost three thousand pieces, details the director of the Museum of History of Medicine, Martin Davalos:
“We have books, paintings, engraved oil paintings, objects, parts, syringes, tweezers, medical instruments, medical books, etc. The oldest book is from 1536 It is the oldest book we have.
They also have the first facial reconstructions in the state with the technique that Dr. Mario Rivas Souza himself used to lay the foundations of the postmortem identification:
“This is the part, it is the beginning of facial reconstruction, this is the first, the master was one of the first, he was the pioneer in Mexico, in Guadalajara and in Mexico possibly in Latin America than It’s facial reconstruction.”
Currently there is an exhibition of the past, present and future of the collection of the Museum of History of Medicine remembering the teachers that made the compilation of so much history possible:
“Many doctors from the Civil Hospital who are physically no longer with us made it possible, but particularly the founding president, today ex-officio president, emeritus master of the University and Doctor Honoris Causa, the doctor Horacio Padilla Muñoz He was the one who was in charge at the beginning.
He is a lover of collection, of mural painting and obviously of antiques so obviously “That’s how the museum started.”
There are pieces as valuable and old as a medical book from the year 1536, among many historically valuable pieces.
- The Museum of Medicine is registered in the list of museums in the country and is open to the public. It is free of charge and is located in the old School of Medicine on Hospital Street, almost on the corner of Belén Street. It is open. Monday to Friday from 9 in the morning to 2 in the followingnoon.
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