Displays
The museum consists of:
- The oldest surviving operating theatre in the country (dating from 1822), used in the days before anaesthetics and antiseptic surgery.
- The herb garret used by the hospital’s apothecary to store and cure herbs used in healing.
- A collection of artefacts revealing the horrors of medicine before the age of science. Includes instruments for cupping, bleeding, trepanning, and childbirth.
- Displays on medieval monastic health care, the history of St Thomas’s, Guy's Hospital and Evelina Children's Hospital, Florence Nightingale and nursing, medical and herbal medicine.
The museum is a member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine.
The nearest London Underground station is London Bridge. It is also a National Rail station.
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