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Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret


Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret Museum National

Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret

 
Description: 9a St. Thomas's Street, Southwark, London, SE1 9RY. Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 4791.

Newest Review: ... forgotten for decades, until rediscovered by a local historian in 1950s. A group of surgeons form the next door St. Guy?s hospital have undertaken to restore it to its original condition and now you can see it exactly as it used to look 150 years ago. The herb garret, which used to be the premises of the hospital?s apothecary is converted into an exhibition space filled with an unlikely ... more

 ... combination of fragrant dried herbs and old operating instruments, looking like something dug up from the dungeons of the inquisition. Panels on the walls tell you about the history of the place and give graphic descriptions of 19th cent. operations, howev...more

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Premium Review Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret: The blade and the pill (428 words)
by - written on 05/07/00 (Very useful, 30 readings)
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The Old Operating Theatre is not for the squeamish. In fact people are fainting regularly at its recreations of 19th cent. operations. And yet it is strangely compelling. Situated in the attic of a derelict 17th cent. church, it maintains an ambience of blood curling bygone practices sealed in a time capsule. OOT combines two independent exhibits: a 19th cent. operating theatre (the oldest in the country) and 17th cent, apothecary herb garret. Both there part of St. Thomas?s hospital before it moved to its current riverside location in the late 19th cent. The place was sealed off since, and forgotten for decades, until rediscovered by a local historian in ...  Read the complete review

 

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