Hello.
I am here in Chicago Illinois
in front of the International Museum of Surgical Science.
Probably not the first thing you would think of
in the list of things to do while visiting Chicago.
This museum is cool because it has a plethora of medical documents
and surgical equipments and medical equipments.
The history and artifacts of eastern and western medicine
and it's got skeletons.
I mean, I've heard so much about this place.
I'm super excited to check it out and bring you guys along with me.
Let's go, nerd out at the International Museum of Surgical Science.
This room is amazing, just take a look at this.
This is the room of wound healing.
Look at these.
And then look at all this equipment right here.
Look at all of the different tools
that we've used throughout the ages.
That is what some people might call a pegleg.
An artificial leg from 1943.
An artificial hand dated 1900 to 1920
made out of leather.
This is, I mean, that's amazing.
This is just so fascinating just seeing how much science has developed
and how quickly,
and all the advancements that we've made in medicine is just...
it's all in one room, look at it.
This museum isn't just artifacts and old timey stuff
we also have interesting art,
all inspired by medicine.
Look at this chair but wait, you can't see it.
It's a chair from the dentist's office.
This is where you sit, where they do your root canals,
well I don't know exactly what they were doing on this chair
but nonetheless it's a dentist's chair
but check out this chair right here.
This, ladies and gentlemen is a wheelchair
1780, 1780.
This museum is inside of a mansion
that was originally designed to resemble
what are the properties that are at Versailles.
Suffice to say, it is a pretty big building
There are four storeys and I've started
my trek through the museum on the fourth floor.
I like going at the top and I just go into the bottom
then just leave in the museum, that's how I do things.
So, I started at the fourth floor and we're going to throw to the third
then we're gonna go, we're gonna, you get it.
Look at this, this is a picture of the bedroom which is the room
that we are in right now.
Check it out.
That's what it looks like as a bedroom.
It's so cool.
By the way I don't recommend that you come to this museum
if you are squeamish and uncomfortable with blood
or anything like that.
Surgery in Ancient Rome.
You have to be kidding me.
I was just in a room that was completely about Taiwan
and their contribution to medicine
and now I'm in a room that is about Japan
and their contribution to medicine.
Okay, I'm still only on the third floor.
I still need to do the second and the first floor.
We didn't spit things out.
Some of the books in this library are wrapped in white tissue
because this is an acid free tissue
which protects the books from deterioration.
By wrapping these books up in these tissues
they're able to preserve one of the most unique collections of medical documents
in North America.
The button to hear the pharmacist's story.
Look how cute!
A little, tiny, dentist office.
That is it for this video.
This museum is much too big for all of the details
and the little things that you find
to be able to make a proper video about it.
I hope that you enjoyed the small taste of this museum
that I just gave you with this video,
if you did then please give me a thumbs up to let me know
and the huge thanks to the International Museum of Surgical Science
for making this possible and having me here at the Museum
I had an awesome time, this is so cool.
I'm just nerding out, I keep going back and forth into the different rooms
because there's so many things, it's easy to miss like one tiny little thing
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But for now I'm gonna go.
So, I will see you when I see you, bye!
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