Medicine and surgery of ancient Peru in the collections and history of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Florence

This study focuses on aspects of the historical and scientific of the nineteenth century, which are closely linked to the development of medicine. This era was also concerned by the collection of rare artifacts preserved today in the Florence Museum. Blades, tweezers and llipta may seem to be of little interest, but need to be reevaluated. When contextualized to their original function and to the historical and scientific period in which they were brought to the Museum, they reveal an interesting history of relationships between ethnological discoveries, anthropology, medicine and psychoanalysis.