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MAURICE LEV AND<br />
SAROJA BHARATI<br />
CARDIAC MUSEUM<br />
The museum houses the largest collection<br />
of hearts in the world with immense<br />
relevance to pathologists<br />
NARRATION: C H UNNIKRISHNAN<br />
PHOTO: UMESH GOSWAMI<br />
A<br />
replica of Lucy, the female<br />
hominid species believed to be<br />
the first ancestor of the human<br />
race on earth, shares the vast room<br />
that houses some 8,000 human hearts.<br />
Though none of these hearts beat at<br />
present, they tell the story of many lives<br />
that help protect beating hearts.<br />
Maurice Lev and Saroja Bharati<br />
Cardiac Museum at Frontier Mediville,<br />
near Chennai, is a priceless pathology<br />
library with the world’s largest collection<br />
of biological specimens of hearts. It<br />
is also home to decades of clinical<br />
study with precise and comprehensive<br />
documentation of diseases of the heart<br />
across age groups. There can’t be a<br />
better class room for heart surgeons,<br />
physicians, medical students and even<br />
for the common public to learn about<br />
the heart, the first organ that develops<br />
in the body, in its clinical entirety.<br />
These hearts of different size, colour<br />
and shape that sit in the formalin glass<br />
76 / FUTURE MEDICINE / <strong>April</strong> <strong>2019</strong>
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