Pharmacy, Hospices de Beaune, Beaune, Burgundy, France

Pharmacy, where the apothecary nuns prepared medicines, in Les Hospices de Beaune, or Hotel-Dieu de Beaune, a charitable almshouse and hospital for the poor, built 1443-57 by Flemish architect Jacques Wiscrer, and founded by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, and his wife Guigone de Salins, in Beaune, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France. On display are copper stills used to extract ingredients from plants grown in the hospital gardens, and a pestle with bow-strung mortar of 1760, to ease the physical labour of grinding ingredients. The painting, by Charles Michel Cockerel Souville, 1751, depicts the work here of the apothecary Claude Morelos. The hospital was run by the nuns of the order of Les Soeurs Hospitalieres de Beaune, and remained a hospital until the 1970s. The building now houses the Musee de l'Histoire de la Medecine, or Museum of the History of Medicine, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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