For the SREF project, I visited the history of medicine museum. Something I noticed at the museum was the speed and acceleration of medicinal knowledge. It's impressive how far the medicine has advanced in just a few hundred years. First, I saw crude tools that influenced modern day scalpels and microscopes. Every couple of decades, these tools advanced more and more. However, just a century or so later, we had models and understanding of human DNA.
The museum had a model of a chromosome on display, obviously enlarged, that was really cool to see. Just a few decades after the chromosome was modeled, humans understood the complexities of DNA to the point of, roughly, what every gene does. Nowadays, scientists are close to being able to edit babies' genes before they are born to get rid of diseases.
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I like how you connected what you learned to the improvements and evolution of modern medicine!
ReplyDeleteI also noticed the speed in the modifications of the tool, and how the museum broke the years up into sections. Where like one floor had a common theme from very old primitive medical tool to a complex machine that is used for the same purpose.
ReplyDeleteIt’s cool to see sketches and notes of their thought process as they were learning about medical studies. Some things like a chromosome are easy to picture today, so it’s a nice eye opener to view the studies if it from a different perspective.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed how the museum displayed the progression of medicine over time and included a section on what the future might hold. It’s really cool to see how one discovery led to another and so on.
ReplyDeleteThe tool progression included primitive drills. Which look a lot like a top but with string winding and unwinding. It was a bit disappointing not to see the development of later medical power drills
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to note how rapidly human knowledge can evolve. More examples of the exponential increase in technological advances are the variations of Moore’s Law and how quickly transistors have evolved over the past few decades.
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