Healthy Habits

Had a chance to stop by the Warren Anatomical Museum today. It's like the poor man's Museum of Surgery (O Eddie Bert museums, you'll always have a fond place in my heart) but it did the trick and once again made me so grateful that of all the periods the world has been through, I live in the very latest one. People back then just behaved... differently, as the matter-of-fact place cards described. There was, for example, one of the many spines Dr. Dwight apparently collected. Of course he did. And a model by this other physician who "started building paper mache anatomical models when he was 19 years old." So that's what life without facebook is like. Add that to all the lancets and surgical equipment with beautiful ivory handles that "did not stand to sterilization," the entire display was a mighty effective scared-straight-into-gratefulness exhibit. I will never again yearn for those days of yore.