Grade 6 Outing to the Adler Medical Museum

The hot, stuffy bus ride was definitely worth it, as all the grade six girls and teachers entered the gates to the Adler Medical Museum. Our Social Sciences teacher, Mrs. Hardie, handed out two work sheets, for us to fill in, about “The History of Medicine”. A wonderful learning atmosphere soon took over, and we all sat down and waited, with clipboards and pens in hand, for our tour guide. She showed us a timeline, way back from one hundred AD, to the present day. Ancient Egypt, Mediaeval, early physicians, Renaissance and many, many more centuries, filled with new medical techniques, diseases and discoveries. We learned the diseases the Egyptians suffered, like Tuberculosis, malaria, bilharzia and Guinea Worm, who Ambroise Pare was and, some of the diseases that killed thousands of people in Europe, such as the Typhus pandemic or smallpox, to name a few, and did you know, that people did a technique called Trepanning, when they drilled holes into your head. After a twenty minute break, we watched a video, called Save A Child’s Heart, about a company in Israel who save children’s hearts, every year. Sangoma’s with herbs, doctors with vaccinations and so much more medical history that we never got to. This is absolutely, one outing I will miss, when I’m in grade seven.
By Dayna Smith Gr6G