The Historian · Charlotte · London
Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
I've given a talk in this room. The moment you grasp that patients were operated on here conscious, as fast as possible to limit blood loss, while students watched from the tiered
A pre-anaesthetic operating theatre, hidden in a 17th-century church attic since 1822. The curved wooden gallery for medical students is still there.
— Charlotte, The Historian
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