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On one side of this room are exhibited dried medicinal plants and herbs, which are still used today, as a continuation of the ancient Hippocratic, Dioscoridea and Byzantine Pharmacology of Nikolaos Mirepsos.
On the opposite side are images of a Byzantine manuscript with the various ways of dislocating dislocations, as described by Hippocrates, commented and illustrated by Apollonius of Citius (1st century BC) and copied, preserved and transmitted to the West, through this manuscript, by the Byzantine physician Nikitas (10th century AD). Below each image, the visitor can contrast it with photographs from modern surgical books, which show that, although the ways of resurrection have been greatly improved with the aid of anaesthesia, they are in fact no different from the Byzantine standards; the technique remains identical for over 50% of cases.
At the far end of the same room, one can admire a magnificent drawer containing about 200 dried medicinal plants and medicines of the 19th century, which until 1920 constituted the classic Pharmacopoeia Helvetica!
