Visit to the Collection Centre of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, Zürich: A anti-wet-dream machine

Texte en français ci-dessous- On the 25th of November 2024, two members of our team – Iris Rivoire and Nina Studer – visited the Collection Centre (the “Sammlungszentrum”) of the University in Zürich, to see part of the medical collections of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine. After an introductory tour of the collections by the medical historian Theresa Bayer, we viewed and photographed two particular objects of the collection as part of our project: a urethral ring and a so-called “ma...