On both the Monday and Wednesday of the week beginning 10th March, two GCSE history classes set off for London to see the old operating theatre. The old operating theatre used to be a part of Old St Thomas’ hospital, but when the hospital was moved to make way for the very same railway we travelled in on, the theatre was left untouched as a reminder of surgical history. It is the oldest surviving surgical theatre in Europe for female patients. Situated in the attic of an early eighteenth century church, the place we visited consisted of the operating theatre itself and a museum full of fascinating historical artifacts. The Old Operating Theatre Y10 History trip
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