ABOUT
Exiting from the side exit of the “chapel”, one enters the pharmacy and apparatus room of the biochemical laboratory. Here the visitor sees the pharmacy of doctor Georgios Mertzos, from 1870, from Lais in Zagori, which contains period medicines and was closed around 1915, as well as medicines from two others, from Germany and Patras, closed in 1936 and 1944 respectively. Ten display cases cover the two walls. Within them are displayed, by decade, the medicines whose use expired in that decade. In total, this room displays medicines and pharmaceuticals, all products of the last 150 years, thus impressively illustrating the evolution of medicines in the 19th and 20th centuries. Opposite, visitors can admire elaborate distillation apparatus and glass vessels from the old Central Biochemical Laboratories of the University Hospital of Zurich, which ceased to be used in the early 1970s. They were replaced by the first semi-automatic devices for the determination of biochemical parameters of blood or fluids.
In the centre, in an annex, is the doctoral diploma of Konstantinos A. Karatheodoris, who was the personal physician to five sultans, co-founder and professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Istanbul.
In another showcase there are the founding books of the Medical Association (1918) and the Dental Association of Ioannina (1929).
