title: [Medical museum--museum medicine].
abstract: The author gives a short survey of the beginnings of the Museum of the History of Medicine at the University of Zurich, created by Gustav Adolf Wehrli, MD (1888-1949), and of its further development. He insists on the present-day interest of such a museum: the study of ancient tools of the art of healing may elucidate complex problems that still defy the profession, and the presentation of such objects in a wide cultural and historical context may lead the attentive visitor to a better understanding of modern medicine.
authors.affiliation: Medizinhistorischen Instituts und Museums der Universität Zürich.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rüttimann
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009144:Museums / Q000266:history*; D013557:Switzerland
vernacular_title: Medizinmuseum--Museumsmedizin.