GHS students visit Dr Cecil Cyrus Museum

by Myka Williams,

Form 4 Science Student at the GHS

On Tuesday, May 24, sixty-one fourth formers from the St Vincent Girls’ High School set out to visit the Dr Cecil Cyrus Museum. On arrival, the students were introduced to the humble Dr Cecil Cyrus himself and his lovely wife. At first sight, the museum appeared ordinary and unstimulating, but with a closer look, it proved to be much more enthralling.{{more}}

The museum is divided into five sections. The first covered graphical images of past surgical cases encountered and operated on by Dr Cecil Cyrus. With each photograph, we were given a rich description of the illnesses, as well as his approach to diagnosing the patients.

The second and third section comprised invaluable body parts, preserved from every mind-boggling surgery performed by Dr Cecil Cyrus. He displayed and explained thoroughly some of the world’s most inspiring, impressive and staggeringly brilliant surgeries that he can call his own. Dr Cecil Cyrus is not one to boast, but a man with such qualifications, experience and results, has had two medical miracles, for which he deserves praise and commendation.

The fourth section included the very operating room where all the captivating surgeries took place. The room is supplied with ancient medical tools that were created in St Vincent and the Grenadines, owing to insufficient funds in the 70s. It is truly unnerving, the level of creativity and dedication that went into making the tools appropriate and worthy of performing surgeries.

Lastly, the fifth section consisted of non-medical antiques. Items like the flat iron, goose iron, sewing machines, reptiles, insects and documents of past times to which all Vincentians can relate, a special segment included to broaden our general knowledge.

The Dr Cecil Cyrus Museum is a mesmerizing, hypnotizing and fascinating experience that opens doors to your cognition and fosters great appreciation. Let the museum’s legacy live on much longer than any of us by preserving Dr Cecil Cyrus’s knowledge. This may be done through the use of films. In addition, let us also motivate fellow Vincentian surgeons to be superb and add to their medical accomplishments.

On a final note, I would like to encourage the nation to visit the Dr Cecil Cyrus Museum, a venture you would not forget. I am truly grateful, for the museum has inspired me further to pursue my dreams of becoming a surgeon and seeking advice, guidance and motivation from our very own Dr Cecil Cyrus.