Down to the doctors...
Make you feel good...
{Down at the Doctors -- Dr Feelgood}
A few weeks ago, I had an appointment down at Massachusetts General Hospital and took some time after to explore the Museum of Medical History and Innovation. It's a free space right in the shadow of the hospital and houses some amazing medical artifacts and information of the medical innovation that MGH and Boston has been home to.
I then walked over to the original MGH building (the first public hospital in Boston in the 1810s and third oldest in the US) to see the Ether Dome. Dr. William Morton was the first doctor to use ether as an anesthetic back in 1846 in this surgical amphitheater, now called the Ether Dome.
It's said that between 1821 and 1868, more than 8,000 operations were performed in the Ether Dome. Now it's used for lectures and meetings and is open to visitors to explore part of American medical history. Pretty crazy to know surgeries were performed there so long ago compared to the sleek and sterile ORs of today!
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9 thoughts on the matter:
I think I have fresh appreciation for the sterility of today! ;) But a very cool place to see!
...interesting, last night on Antiques Roadshow they had medical items!
What progress the medical profession has had in the last century! I wonder what will happen in the next 100 years!
Wow that is so cool! What a neat place to explore!!
This is so cool. Tyler just finished taking a history GE class at UCLA called the history of medicine that he said was fascinating so I know he'd love to visit this one day. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting. Funny what they could do even way back when!
You go to so many interesting places! It's scary in looking at some of the vintage & antique medical equipment but without their pioneering we wouldn't have the high standard of medical care we have today.
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What a cool museum. Very nice. Would love to visit there.
Lucky for us medicine has come a long way since then. I am reading a series of books set in the late 1700s and early 1800s at the moment, the medical procedures were basic to say the least, and sucking blood out of you with leaches sounds disgusting! Take care and have a good week.
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