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welfare venues: hospitals, clinics, home
The collection of objects of the Museum allows illustrating
some of the welfare venues along the history of Catalonia.
Santa Creu’s Hospital, later Sant Pau’s, as well
as the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona have a noteworthy presence
in the Museum collection through different objects, such as
a table for anatomical dissection, exploration chairs, spittoons,
and instruments to facilitate patient’s diets.
The creation of private clinics and surgeries was a characteristic
phenomenon during the last third of the 19th Century. The
Museum has some objects coming from some of those clinics,
such as Drs. Fargas’, Rusca’s, Arruga’s,
Marqués’, Pujol i Brull’s and Ribas i Ribas’,
among which several exploration chairs, couches, surgery advertisement
plaques and cabinets for instrumental and electrotherapeutic
furniture.
Another welfare feature was home care, which finds a place
in the Museum from portable objects, such as instrumental
boxes, medical cases, X-ray and pneumothorax equipment and
anaesthetic masks.
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