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It was the first university in Europe that was founded independently of the Church or a sovereign. Initially, it had four faculties: theology, law and political science, medicine and philosophy. With two chairs and four associate professorships, the Medical Faculty was considered to be one of the best equipped faculties.
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- Antiquarian Prints
- Folio
- Library of Henry E. Sigerist
- Library of Jürgen Thorwald
- Library of Dr. Max Bircher-Benner
- Health Resort Collection
The collection of medical prints from the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries includes important publications of the time. It entails a comprehensive collection of the publications of the Zurich city physicians. The approximately 1700 old prints are displayed separately.
The collection of folios includes many plate volumes with prints as well as individual volumes with early photographs and X-rays. Thematically, anatomy, obstetrics, and dermatology are strongly represented. The folios are shelved separately.
The Swiss American medical historian taught in Leipzig under Karl Sudhoff and at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. It includes old prints and works on early medieval medicine, American public health, medicine in the Soviet Union, South America, Africa, and India. The books were integrated into the collection for medical history after being purc...
Thorwald was a german writer and author of non-fiction books for a broad audience. The collection includes many popular science works, some of which are very rare from the 20th century on criminal medicine, sexuality, female emancipation, medicine and war, and the history of surgery. Personal notes of the author accompany many titles. The titles ar...
Bircher was a Swiss physician, nutritional reformer, and director of the clinic "Living Strength". He is also known as the inventor of the Birchermüesli. His collection includes works on nutrition, alternative medicine, exercise therapy, and cookbooks. Titles are integrated into the catalog offer the library of the history of medicine.
Special prints and advertising brochures on Swiss and international health resorts of unknown origin are partly cataloged individually, partly in dossiers. The boxes are arranged separately from the rest of the collection for the history of medicine.
The History of Medicine Department is part of the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine within the University of Zurich (UZH). It is an interdisciplinary chair and the team participates in research and teaching in the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Philosophy.
The Archive of the History of Medicine was founded in January 2003 as part of the Institute of the History of Medicine of the University of Zurich. It combines collections and personal papers, which have their origin in the 1920s, with the new bequests from medical personnel and other institutions.
The Medical Collection of the University of Zurich was initiated around 1915 as the private collection of the later assistant professor and first curator of the collection Dr. med. Gustav Adolf Wehrli (26 June 1888 – 18 January 1949).
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