We're in the process of moving to www.SE1.news - find the latest news there.
Leeches, Lancets and Toothpulling
Long Before the NHS
This event is in the past. This is an archive page for reference.
Richard Kennedy is an author and historian who will speak from the perspective of a colonial American barber-surgeon.
He will demonstrate the use of scarificators, cupping and leeches to bleed, techniques for the use of knives and chisels for amputation without anesthesia, and the "latest" devices used for rotted teeth - the toothkey, pelican and lancet.
Richard makes his home in California and is the author of an historical fiction "Leeches and Liberty".
Where
Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret
9a St Thomas Street, SE1 9RY
info • what's on @ • map
£6; conc £5; child £3.50; family (2+4) £13.90
This belongs to
Tools
- Discuss this event in the forum
- Get event in iCalendar format
(for mobile phones, Apple Calendar etc) - Remind me (Google Calendar)
Updated: 9 July 2008
Additions/corrections welcome.
Additions/corrections welcome.
This event is in the past. This is an archive page for reference.
Follow us
Email newsletter
For the latest local news and events direct to your inbox every Monday, you need our weekly email newsletter SE1 Direct.