15 – 31 October 2022, Iulius Mall
With autumn, the series of exhibitions in Iulius Mall by the National History Museum of Transylvania is back with new themes and topics! Because autumn brings not only rich fruits, but also numerous viruses, the first exhibition "of the season" is Bizarre cures from the past. Today's medicines are controlled, tested and standardized, produced and sold under conditions of maximum hygiene, administered according to personalized dosages. But not long ago, in Transylvania until around 1900, many people treated themselves with baby remedies, and those who could afford to buy from the pharmacy often received strange preparations, obtained not only from minerals and medicinal plants, but also from the organs , the fluids or even the excrement of some animals, or even from human bodies. Among these, we mention theriaca, mummy dust, cuttlefish bone, goat blood, mercury, beaver anal glands, ash beetles, crayfish eyes and many more. With this project we told the story of the most bizarre drugs of the past and by comparing them with today, we marked the progress of science.
Curator: Ana-Maria Gruia.
Graphics: Török Károly.
