Old Operating Theatre

The Old Operating Theatre Museum is one of London?s most intriguing historic interiors. It is found in the garret of St Thomas's Church, Southwark, on the original site of St Thomas' Hospital. It consists of:

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London?s - St Thomas's Church - Southwark - St Thomas' Hospital

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• the oldest surviving operating theatre in the country (dating from 1822), used in the days before anaesthetics and antiseptic surgery.
• the herb garret used by the hospital?s apothecary to store and cure herbs used in healing.
• a collection of artefacts revealing the horrors of medicine before the age of science. Includes instruments for cupping, bleeding, trepanning, and childbirth.
• displays on medieval monastic health care, the history of St Thomas?s, Guy's Hospital and Evelina Children's Hospital, Florence Nightingale and nursing, medical and herbal medicine.
 
Old Operating Theatre: The Rebuilding of the Hospital and the Herb Garret ►