Helpful Balms, Curing Pills

Moments in the history of pharmacy
Habersumpf Cottage
20.08.2016 – 31.12.2016

The exhibition presents great moments in pharmacy: visitors can get a glimpse of traditional medicine and pharmacies and industrial pharmaceutical manufacturing. They can also learn about traditional therapies and the use of medicinal herbs, about the functioning and structure of the Transylvanian pharmacies in the 18^th and 19^th centuries and also about the pharmacies in Odorheiu Secuiesc in the 19^th and 20^th centuries and about the modern pharmaceutical manufacturing. Visitors can try to use the manual pill making machine, they can learn about the instruments and tools used in the laboratories of a modern pharmaceutical factory.