NAPLES. AT THE PEACE HOSPITAL THE NATIVITY SCENE “INCURABLE SHEPHERDS AND CHARLAN HEALERS” – Teleischia
Tomorrow Wednesday 14 December at 16.00 in the Lazzaretto room of the former Ospedale della Pace in via dei Tribunali in Naples a scientific nativity scene will be inaugurated in a lane of the ancient lazaret, with one hundred sick shepherds, apothecaries, surgeons and doctors in eighteenth-century costumes. The exhibition that accompanies the exhibition on the history of infectious diseases and vaccines can be visited on Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 9.30 to 13.30. The exhibition ‘Incurable shepherds and charlatan healers’ is promoted by the Museum of Health Arts and the History of Medicine of Naples, with the contribution of the Campania Region as part of the Plan for Cultural Promotion for the year 2022. Among the shepherds, a patient awaiting treatment from the toothpuller, a patient with ascites drunk, the syphilitic, the blind, surgeons intent on amputating a leg. There are also scenes from the wheel of the Annunziata exposed, wounded, a cranial trepanation. One space is dedicated to alchemist monks and apothecary monks.
“The nativity scene is part of the ‘A Museum for Health’ project and is our tribute to all the sick in the world, to all health professionals and to all the institutions that have always guaranteed treatment” says the prof. Gennaro Rispoli, scientific director of the Museum of Health Arts. The event will be attended by prof. Fernando Gombos dean of Italian dentistry and the Margherita di Savoia music high school in Naples.
The exhibition ‘Incurable shepherds and charlatan healers’ can be visited together with the exhibition ‘ Pandemic planet. Stories of epidemic and vaccines’ on Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 9.30 to 13.30.
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