Weak stomachs beware! The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum gives visitors a fascinating glimpse into the medicine of the 18th-20th centuries. The ground floor is a mid-19th-century apothecary shop containing hundreds of medicinal herbs and bottles of liquids, powders and leeches.
Gruesome practices performed in the name of science can make the blood run cold; bloodletting was still a common practice at this time and was performed at the local barber shop (hence the red and white striped pole). Surgical instruments like the trephination drill - used to relieve headaches by drilling a whole in a patients head - are also on display, as well as gris-gris bags used to cast spells in the Voodoo religion.