Sharing the grounds with the Kingston General Hospital, the Museum of Health Care has the same long history as the 1830s hospital. It is the largest hospital between Toronto and Ottawa and only hospital in Canada to still be in its original building. The museum building used to be dormitories for nurses in training.
It has a lot of exhibits on fake medications with heroin and cocaine and radium in it and early versions of modern medical equipment. Old x-ray machines, dentures made from animal bone, foot-operated dental drills, and simple casts. I wish they would make modern connections to old technology such as linking snake oil to homeopathy and connecting amputation with advanced prosthetics.
Entry is free but parking is scarce.
