Not for the squeamish

I pass on an advertisement from Evenbrite for a medical museum somewhere near London Bridge, a museum which comes with what looks like a mock-up of a Victorian operating theatre, arranged as a lecture theatre. Where you can have an hour's talk on how it was all done.

According to the blurb which comes with it: 'these practices are laid bare in the Victorian Surgery Demonstration Talk events that take place weekly at The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret. Minutes away from London Bridge, the venue is the oldest surviving operating theatre in Europe, dating back to 1822. Turning on to a relatively quiet road off the chaotic Borough High Street, I enter the building through a suitably old doorway and climb a hell of a lot of steps, up what feels a lot like the world’s tallest and narrowest spiral staircase. It’s explained by the fact that the theatre is located in the roof space of an old church' - which suggests that this actually was once an operating theatre, albeit only used on a once a week basis, and then only for ladies.

Perhaps I am going to have to visit the place to get to the bottom of it all. But would I go the distance without passing out amid all the gory talk?

Reference 1: https://www.eventbrite.com/rally/london/inside-the-old-operating-theatre-london/.

Reference 2: http://oldoperatingtheatre.com/. The horse's mouth.