The Old Operating Theatre Museum

 

Shared by Melina Rellán:

London is amazing!!, I've been there several times. Behind every corner or in the different streets you can find amazing places and people. 

I can remember some years ago when I went there with one of my colleagues and a few of our students, we visited "the Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret" (https://oldoperatingtheatre.com), it's the oldest surviving operating theatre of Europe, and it's a great experience when visiting it. 

Housed in the attic of the early eighteenth-century church of the old St Thomas’ Hospital, this atmospheric museum offers a unique insight into the history of medicine and surgery. 

The original timber framed Herb Garret was once used to dry and store herbs for patients’ medicines and in 1822 an operating theatre was included.

Predating anaesthetics and antiseptics, it is the oldest surviving surgical theatre in Europe.