New location for Lancaster Medical Heritage Museum that has a wealth of history
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Scott LaMar
Airdate: December 06, 2022
The Lancaster Medical Heritage Museum will open at a new location – 410 North Lime Street in Lancaster – this Saturday, December 10th.
The museum will have an emphasis on Lancaster County healthcare and medical history, but medicine in Pennsylvania gets attention too.
Actually, geography is not the main focus of the museum. It’s history.
On The Spark Tuesday was Kim Jovinelli, Executive Director of the Lancaster Medical Heritage Museum, who talked about some of the exhibits at the museum,”You can expect an exhibit on polio. We have an iron lung (pictured above) that was given to us by Lancaster General Hospital that was used during the polio epidemics. We’re highlighting the polio epidemic. We have exhibits on ophthalmology. So doctors and optometrists, we have exhibits on dentistry, nursing, we have exhibit on art. We’re working with Elizabethtown College who have done a community wall with us. We have a hands on exhibit where individuals can learn the five steps that all doctors need to learn. So our auscultation, which is listening, palpation, touching, inspection, seeing basically the five senses and yeah, we have our skeleton here too, our Bonaparte, who recently got named Bonaparte.”
The museum covers a much of medical history,”There’s such an evolution and a progression to medicine. I mentioned bloodletting, but you could have started with praying over a body. Or we have something called Cheapening Tools, which was used to bore holes into the skull. The idea was to release evil spirits. Right now we use something similar to release pressure in the brain all the way up to modern nursing techniques and modern ophthalmological techniques. So it really the evolution of medicine.”
