Go back in time to the Victorian era and explore how medicines were made and surgery was carried out 200 years ago at the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret. Housed in the attic of the church of the Old St Thomas’ Hospital and installed in1822, the operating theatre (the oldest surviving surgical theatre in Europe) was used for operations on females before anaesthetics and antiseptics, and was a place where medical students would learn their profession. As well as the operating theatre itself, you can also explore the herb garret, where herbs for medicines were dried and stored, and artefacts used before the advent of modern science in procedures like cupping and trepanning.