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Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret

in Where I escape bleeping by Callum Reeve

Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret on “Where I escape bleeping”, a list by Callum Reeve on TheLysts.

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Address
St Thomas’ Church, 9a St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY
City
London
Type
Surgical history museum
Best for
Imagining how grim pre-anaesthetic surgery really was
My take
A spiral staircase, a timber roof and an amphitheatre where they did amputations before ketamine was a twinkle in anyone’s eye. Ideal for remembering that, however bad your on-call, at least you have propofol.