In this video, Jessica the Museum Guide (that’s me!) takes you on a guided tour of the grim history of surgery by visiting five different medical museums in London. We explore trepanation, bloodletting, bear bile enemas, and more on a journey from monastic medicine to modern surgery.

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VIDEO SUMMARY

On our tour, we take a guided museum tour of The Old Operating Theatre and four other London museums to learn all about the history of surgery.

0:00 - Robert Liston and the 300% Fatality Surgery
1:45 - Introduction to the Tour
3:38 - The History of the Old Operating Theatre
8:33 - Monastic Medicine at Bart's Hospital Museum
12:53 - Henry VIII, Barber-Surgeons, and Anatomical Knowledge
16:15 - Bloodletting and the Barber's Pole
20:12 - What was Surgery really like at the Old Operating Theatre?
22:08 - Chloroform and Pain Relief at the Anaesthesia Heritage Centre Museum
23:30 - Germ Theory, Joseph Lister, and Antiseptics
27:43 - Joseph Lister's Artefacts at the Science Museum

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