All Posts Tagged With: "Museum of Health Care"
Music and Memory: Learning From People With Dimentia
Is musical memory spared over other memories in people with dementia? Lola Cuddy and Jacalyn Duffin have been testing that idea for eight years. They will describe how this prize-winning research began with curiosity about a single patient and grew into a large study involving more than fifty people with dementia and hundreds of controls. [...]
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A Night at The Museum of Health Care
Come to The Museum of Health Care and learn what a doctor’s visit was like in centuries past— bloodletting, leeches, and surgical saws—and leave with a giddy sense of relief that it’s 2011. Children, youth, and adults are invited to enjoy popcorn & punch, participate in a spooky activity, and join Dr. Greg Baran for [...]
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Our Sensational Senses
School’s out and it’s time for sun! Come to the Museum of Health Care for some five senses fun! Smell! Hear! Taste! Touch! Engage your five senses this summer through hands-on activities! Learn how doctors from the 1800s used their five senses to diagnose patients, sample an historical snack and drink, create a puzzle to [...]
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Guide to March Break
In case your kids haven’t reminded you, March Break is but a few days away. Kids throughout the Limestone District School Board are presently sitting in class watching the clock, and counting down to a week where they’ll be free from finger painting and standardized testing. If you’re like many of the parents I’ve spoken [...]
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The Nostrums and Nibbles Gala
You are cordially invited to the Museum of Health Care for a lighthearted gala that is sure to restore your strength and vigor. Patent medicine-inspired cocktails will bring the bloom of health to the cheek and delight to the heart. Activities, prizes, musicians, live leeches, and turn-of-the-century reenactors are sure to lift your spirits. Immerse [...]
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Canada’s First Neurologist: A Story of Paralysis, Dogs and Royalty
The Museum of Health Care presents a public lecture by Dr. Gregory Baran, a full time family physician with an interest in medical antiques and the history of medicine. Dr. Baran’s lecture will explore the life and work of Dr. David Shirres, Canada’s first Neurologist at the turn of the 20th Century. An emphasis will [...]
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Ann at Home – 15th Anniversary of the Museum of Health Care
It is the anniversary of the Ann Baillie Building National Historic Site as home to the Museum of Health Care. Spend an afternoon at the Museum of Health Care during Heritage Week and enjoy a curator’s tour of the nursing gallery, storytelling tours with nursing grads who once called the building home, a special “behind [...]
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13th annual Margaret Angus Research Fellowship Evening Presentation
The Museum of Health Care Presents: From Laboratory Instrument to Powerful Diagnostic Tool: The Impact of the Electrocardiogram on the Clinical Diagnosis of Heart Disease, 1900-1970 Event Summary: The Museum of Health Care, in partnership with the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario, presents the 13th annual Margaret Angus Research Fellowship Evening Presentation, to be [...]
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Guide to Canada Day
It is not going to rain tomorrow. It is not going to rain tomorrow. It is not…come on, say it with me! The City has lined up some fun events around Kingston to celebrate Canada’s 142nd birthday. If you’re downtown, you can start things off with the red and white parade. Anyone wearing Canada’s national [...]
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