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Old Operating Theatre Museum

Address: 9A St. Thomas St., South Bank, London, SE1 9RY
Phone: 020/7188-2679
www.thegarret.org.uk

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: South Bank

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Fodor's Review:

All that remains of one of England's oldest hospitals, which stood here from the 12th century until 1862, is the room where women went under the knife. The theater was bricked up and forgotten for a century but has been restored into an exhibition of early-19th-century medical practices: the operating table onto which the gagged and blindfolded patients were roped; the box of sawdust underneath for catching their blood; the knives, pliers, and handsaws the surgeons wielded; and—this was a theater in the round—the spectators' seats. So authentic are the surroundings that they were used in the film The Madness of King George. Next door is a sweeter show: the Herb Garret, with displays of medicinal herbs used during the same period.

Cost: £5.45
Open: Daily 10:30-5. Closed Dec. 15-Jan. 5
Tube: London Bridge

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