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Illness and disease affects us all. The treatment of these conditions, however, has been vast and varied, depending on the historical periods and the cultural context in and during which they are practiced. Situated in the Iziko South African Museum rock art gallery, where healing power is expressed in San paintings, this mobile set of cabinets explores a rich complex of healing practices through the display of a medicine chest which was donated to the University of Cape Town in 1978. This chest belonged to a British dentist, who practiced in Cape Town from 1904, and who bought the chest for a hunting trip he undertook in 1913 to (then) Northern Rhodesia. The idea of the chest gives rise to a variety of forms of healing: from instruments used to exorcise evil spirits and children's letters written to celebrate a heart transplant; to medicinal flowers bought at the Adderley Street flower market. The exhibition aims to visualise and materialise illness and its treatment from historical, cultural and disciplinary perspectives. Drawing on well-established historical and contemporary connections between the disciplines of Botany, Medicine and Pharmacology, the exhibits also suggest latent links which are at times political, at times whimsical.

type	research exposition
date	16/08/2024
last modified	19/08/2024
status	in progress
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license	CC BY-NC-ND
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2972944/2972945

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