The most interesting part of this week was our visit to the Horst Stöckel Museum for the History of Anesthesia, which is owned and operated by Horst Stöckel. Dr. Stöckel, who I also noticed has, at least, three additional titles, was a very important person to the development of modern anesthesia and the concept of critical care units. The museum itself is the only one of its kind in Europe and, according to Dr. Stöckel, only one of three museums in the world dedicated to anesthesiology. The museum features devices, journals, textbooks, apparatuses, and various other things associated with the field from both America and Europe. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera so I have no pictures of this museum.
In addition to the types of machinery someone would normally expect to find in an anesthesia museum, he had a collection of anesthetic drugs, such as Valium, and critical care respiratory devices, which included an entire iron lung. He also displayed a small number of books and objects related to herbal medicines both antiquated and, to some extent, current. For this part of his museum, which I should mention only occupies about half to two-thirds of the first floor of a relatively small building, Dr. Stöckel was able to legally procure 200 grams worth of Marijuana to add to his display. The rest of the week was fairly typical otherwise, with the possible exception of the special lecture on bioethics given by Dr. Dirk Lanzerath; however, I don’t know what to really say about that that doesn’t involve basically recounting the lecture.
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