Most operations without anaesthetics were undertaken in less than a minute, a trial for any patient undergoing the agony of amputation, trepanning or "cutting for the stone". A talk on bloodletting and the brutal and bloody surgery that nonetheless saved lives. This could be the stuff of nightmares...
Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret
9a St Thomas Street, SE1 9RY
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