The Old Operating Theatre was built as an operating theatre for women in 1822 as part of St Thomas' Hospital. The theatre was a working site from 1822 to 1862, before the development of either antiseptics or anaesthesia. Patients were dosed with alcohol and given a wooden pole to bite on to cope with the pain of surgical procedures like amputation.
This video is from Medical London, a book and website about 2000 years of health and sickness in the capital city, featuring seven self-guided walks. The Old Operating Theatre is a point of interest on the first walk, 'Life and Death by Water: A walk along the Medieval Thames'.
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