November 16, 2012: It's not just a medical history museum, but also about how our body works, and rather playfully presented. It is housed in former hospital buildings. The entrance is hidden. If you stand at the crosswalk at Valvet across the street, and see the University Library, it is to the left. If one expects operating theaters and a variety of medical instruments one will be disappointed. So much can not fit in the 130 meters long and 3 meters wide building along the Allhelgona kyrkogata, one hopes to take over more space. It has a play area for children, where they can play hospital. The corridor ends with the interior of an old drugstore. There are not many people who find their way here, I get a guided tour just for me.

Heart and motion
I see how the artificial heart was developed. On a monitor shows how ultrasound let us see the heart beating. Not long ago, I saw my own heart that way. On a wall hang bone prostheses, today not similar to a true leg, and one can play sports with them. A play of light and real skeletons of cat, monkey, flying fox, seal, show that vertebrate skeletons are similarly structured. Adjacent is a model of the human skeleton. All the same, but adapted to different life. a light cat skeleton becomes a cat that jumps up, elastic and smooth movements. A skeleton shows which parts you can be replace in man, in the booth next to it are various ball joints.

Eye, ear, skin, structure, aging
EReader gives more information, point it at a picture and you can e.g. "Dress" of a naked woman (or man, I chose the woman of course). Take off the skin, ..., in the end all that remains is the brain. I dress her again, the woman is more beautiful with the skin on. Skin is a big organ, a mirror show how big, I get to see my own enlarged. It shows how you can trick the eye and brain with optical illusions. So far, my hearing good, the eardrum and the small pieces that transmits eardrum movement into the brain works. One can measure your own hand strength, 550 N with the right hand, 450 with the left. Pretty good  according to the guide. A little about the brain, mine has gotten worse. It was quite a long time since conception now, and I get older. Both illustrated on monitors, with an artificial insemination. An age staircase crosses the corridor and ends with you falling out the window precipice.

The brain
The brain is a remarkable thing. We know somewhat what the different parts do and how. Very much is still unknown, but the knowledge is built on. The psychological knowledge has not developed as fast. It is not so long since we strapped patients. Many were creative people, there are some works of St. Lars former  museum.

Ultrasound and dialysis
Lund has some medical innovations. Hellmuth Hertz, a professor in Lund, co-developed the method of using ultrasound to study the heart (he is also behind the inkjet printer). Nils Alwall, professor of Lund, developed the artificial kidney for dialysis. Both devices are shown at the museum.

Reflections
There is a small shop, buy a piece of organic chocolate as fuel for the ride home. Thinking about that life and the universe is amazing. Life has a self-regulating adaptation to changes in the environment on our planet. If I were God, I would have been proud of my creation. Remains to be seen whether life can cope with man's present destructive impact on the environment.

Link: Livets museum

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