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Museum tour
Mit dem Stadtarzt Felix Platter auf Visite
Historisches Museum Basel: Barfüsserkirche
Barfüsserplatz 7, 4051 Basel
Scenic tour about disease, plague and medicine around 1600
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Felix Platter is a city doctor in Basel and a professor of medicine. He anatomizes cadavers to advance medical science. He treats the sick and keeps meticulous records of the many diseases he encounters day after day. He can't cure everything, but in his house on Petersgraben, Platter runs a collection of all kinds of special natural products from which he makes his medicines. But the biggest challenge is the plague, which strikes the city about every twelve years. Even now, in 1610, Platter is busy around the clock because of the outbreak of the epidemic. But this time he wants to get on the trail of the disease ...
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