Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum

What better way to spend a rainy afternoon than looking at diseased and dissected body organs and now-barbaric medical instruments? Admittedly I didn't take pictures of the more disgusting specimens or the more sad cases. I didn't have the 'stomach' for it. Seriously though, this small museum is inside the grounds for Berlin's 'Charite' university hospital, Europe's largest hospital-teaching institution. Enjoy!

This little bunny had syphilis.


Why does this model for measuring nerve conduction (on the left) remind me of a clock my mother once had? Fyi, it's beside acousitc resonators.


Military surgeon's portable instruments from 1940.


Cataract knives c. 1900.


Wax models with various eye diseases, also c. 1900.



Loops in the small intestine, 1956. Strange how much it looks like a jelly fish.


Relief of the Mucous membrane of the stomach, from 1936.


Gallbladder, spleen and kidneys, oh my!


Who knew gallbladder stones could be so varying and pretty?