This abandoned doctor’s practice in Belgium appears to be a small time capsule from the second half of the twentieth century. The practice was located inside a normal residential house, something that used to be very common. Many general practitioners worked directly from their homes, with consultation rooms, treatment areas and medicine storage all in the same building.

Inside the house several pieces of medical equipment are still present. One of the rooms contains an old X-ray installation with a control console. Equipment like this was often used in small clinics during the 1960s and 1970s, when X-ray systems were still large mechanical machines rather than the compact digital systems used today.

Another room contains a gynecological examination chair and a cabinet filled with medical instruments such as clamps, scalpels and syringes. In the display cabinet there are also old medicines and bandages. Some of the packaging still shows names of products that were commonly used in general practices decades ago.

Further inside the building there is a small pharmacy room with wooden cabinets filled with bottles, powders and boxes of medication. In the past it was normal for doctors to keep their own supply of medicines so patients could receive treatment immediately.

Based on the equipment, furniture and medication that remain, the practice was most likely closed sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. After that the building appears to have been largely untouched. Because of this, the location now offers a rare look at what a small local doctor’s practice once looked like.