New museum exhibit helping Nova Scotians learn ‘how to mend a broken heart’
He was on site along with other society members on Saturday to help connect museum visitors with the history of mending a broken heart.Members also say it’s the perfect companion to the hit “Body Works Vital” exhibit. It will be on display until February 20th.
The small installation features artifacts from the collection of Dr. C. Edwin Kinley. He was the first Nova Scotia physician to install a pacemaker in the province.“It was invented in 1950 in Canada by a cardiac surgeon and an electrical engineer working together, trying to duplicate what the heart does naturally. The heart has a natural pacemaker, and sometimes that natural pacemaker doesn’t function properly so you have to replace it.
A display case with pacemakers featured in the “How to Mend a Broken Heart” display at the Museum of Natural History.The Medical History Society of Nova Scotia collects artifacts and displays them around the province. Exhibits of doctors’ offices are located at Sherbrooke Village and the Yarmouth County Museum.