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  1. Visit Europe's oldest surviving operating theatre and the attic herb room of St Thomas' Hospital. Learn about the history of medicine and surgery, see exhibitions and events, and download the augmented reality app.

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  2. The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret at 9a St Thomas Street is a museum of surgical history and one of the oldest surviving operating theatres. It is located in the garret of St Thomas's Church , Southwark , in London , on the original site of St Thomas' Hospital .

  3. The Church is the oldest surviving part of St Thomas’ Hospital’s Southwark site. The space once served as a garret for the hospital’s apothecary to dry herbs required for medicines. In 1822, the garret was modified to include a women’s operating theatre linked to the neighbouring Dorcas Ward.

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  5. The Operating Theatre is the oldest surviving building of the original St Thomas’ Hospital. Explore the stepped wooden surgical theatre and original timber framed garret where lifesaving operations took place on the wooden operating table between 1822 and 1862.

    • 9A St Thomas' Street, SE1 9RY
  6. 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.

  7. Apr 9, 2012 · Discover Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret in London, England: In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized...

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