New section added to museum's webpages
The museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has added a new section to its webpages to
give information about the changing treatment of different conditions
over time.
The new section, “Developing
treatments”, has arisen from
the museum’s display of the same name in the Society’s reception
area. Although the display will change annually, the information will
not be lost. Each year’s display will be captured in the form of
illustrated information sheets to be built up into an online resource.
The “Developing treatments” section of the website currently
contains three information sheets, each with colour illustrations of
images and objects in the museum’s collections. They cover malaria,
pain and asthma. Three further topics — syphilis, “melancholia” and “mania”,
and the common cold — are to be added in due course.
The keeper of the museum collections, Briony Hudson, said: “The
new ‘Developing treatments’ webpage provides a great opportunity
for us to make information as accessible as possible. The significant
research that goes into producing our annual display is now available
beyond the bounds of the physical exhibition itself. This fascinating
online archive of material about a wide range of conditions and remedies
will continue to grow.”
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The
Pharmaceutical Journal