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Royal College of Physicians Museum
About Royal College of Physicians Museum
There is a one-room museum in the basement of this impressive post-war building which shows off the history of the Royal College and of medication in general.
However, there is usually a much larger temporary exhibition held in the upper floors as well.
Address
Royal College of Physicians Museum,
11 St Andrews Place,
London,
NW1 4LE
Next to Regent’s Park is an imposing modernist building, and in its basement, is a large room full of medical instruments that is also open to the public.
Taking a breath, something we do without thinking, until we think about it then we wonder how we can stop thinking about breathing and maybe panic about what would happen if we stopped breathing.
Just under 400 years ago, a British physician was to overturn 1,500 years of thinking about how the human body worked, with considerable opposition from the venue now hosting an exhibition about him. William Harvey was a very well connected…
That modernist block by Regents Park that houses the medical professionals of the Royal College of Physicians has been given over to alchemy, astrology and witchcraft.
Foot of a cat, fat from a pig, an old onion, some fresh eggs, hen’s droppings and horse dung – not a Scottish play potion, but the poultices offered to treat the burns of the Great Fire of London.
Mathematician, magician, astronomer, astrologer, explorer, occultist, imperialist, alchemist and spy, John Dee continues to fascinate centuries after he first stepped foot in the court of Elizabeth I.
