The Old Operating Theatre - Museum & Herb Garret
Hospital Admission Certificate from the 18th Century
The Waiting Room
Featured Object: Apothecary Jars
Miseratione non mercede
Anatomy & Dissection
Abraham Solomon, The dissection room of Old St Thomas' Hospital, 1838, gouache on paper.
The Herb Garret
The Apothecary Counter
Physicians & Diagnosis
Women's Health & Domestic Medicine
Care of the Sick & Nursing
Old St Thomas' Hospital
Venetian Plague Doctor's Mask
The Apothecary's Workshop
Opium Poppy Seed Heads
The Apothecary's Rose
Diagnostic Doll
Featured Object: Leech Jar
The "Mechanical Leech"
Featured Object: Macaura's Blood Circulator
Featured Object: Whirling Spray Ladies' Syringe
Featured Object: Domestic Medicine Chest
The "Midwife's Vade Mecum"
Featured Object: A Medieval Pewter Plate
Featured Object: Carbolic Spray
Schimmelbusch Anaesthetic Mask
Horsehair Sutures and Silkworm Gut Ligatures
Surgery in the 1800s
Liston's Amputation Kit
The Operating Table
The Replica Operating Table
Gold-plated Trephine
The Nurse's Chatelaine
Stomach and Enema Syringe
The Alembic
The Beer Bell
Chain Dissecting Hooks
Victorian Prosthesis
Marigold
Surgeon's frock coat, apron and wash station
Wooden Bandage Winder: Double Roll
Bladder Stones
Metacarpal/Metatarsal Amputation Saws
Bistoury Caché
Bismar Scale
Old Op Activities Online
The Garret
Wet Specimen: Tapeworm (Taenia solium)
Mrs Grieve: Anatomical Teaching Skeleton
Paediatric Ophthalmic Set
This compact case from the late 19th century held medicaments used to treat eye conditions in children. It's a specially designed paediatric ophthalmic set originally used at the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children, which opened at Southwark, London, in 1869 (open today as the Evelina London Children’s Hospital). The three glass dropper bottles contained substances commonly employed when treating various eye conditions. The blue bottle contained Homatropine, the black bottle contained Atropine, and the clear glass bottle contained Cocaine. The substances all had similar effects: they dilated the pupils and paralysed accommodation (the natural constriction or dilation of the pupil when focusing on near or far objects). Cocaine also provided a anaesthetic effect upon the superficial structures of the eye. They could be used alone or mixed together. The solutions were made by dissolving the active ingredients in cooled boiled or distilled water before they were carefully dropped into the eyes of Victorian children.