Lectures and Events 2008

 

All events are included in Museum admission and presented by Museum curatorial staff, unless otherwise stated.

VICTORIAN SURGERY
Every Saturday & Sunday in March & April,
Sat 3rd & 10th & Sun 4th, 11th & 18th May;
all at 2pm

A demonstration of an operation without anaesthetics or antiseptics,

in Britain’s only remaining wooden 19th century Operating Theatre.

How will you survive...?

(Suitable for all ages)

 

THE OLD OPERATING THEATRE RECOMMENDS:

ART AND MEDICINE

At the Royal Society of Medicine
1 Wimpole Street, London
Friday 9th May at 6pm

The "Art and Medicine" talks will look into the fascinating

origins of anatomy and surgery, the historical significance

of medicine in renaissance art and the clinical importance of

art and beauty particularly in facial reconstructive surgery.

The talks will be followed by drinks and an exhibition

in the atrium of artwork kindly displayed by

The Facial Surgery Research Foundation.



Guest speakers include Emeritus Professor Harold Ellis,

Oral and Maxillofacial Consultant and founder of The Facial Surgery Research Foundation Professor Iain Hutchinson,

and Neurosurgeon Mr Alesandro Paluzzi.

Please book online at http://www.rsm.ac.uk/students/ste10d.php

Or contact Marie Blythe on 020 7290 3846

Tickets £5 - 15

To download the flyer, click here.

 

THE LONG WALK
Saturday 31st May at 10am

A Complete History of London - all in one day!

This guided walk is led by Kevin Flude, Director of the Old Operating Theatre Museum,

and expert leader of Guided Walks. The walk will  weave through the City and Southwark,

discovering each period of London's History -

beginning with the origins of the name Londinium and ending in Bankside, London's newest cultural quarter.

ITINERARY

Origins of London     10am   Tower Hill Underground
Saxon and Medieval London   12     Guildhall Art Gallery
Tudor and Stuart London      2.30pm St Bartholemew's Church, Smithfield
Georgian and Victorian London   4.30pm  St Brides Church, Fleet Street
Modern London       7.00pm  Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub
 

The Walk begins at Tower Hill Underground Station at 10am and ends at 8.30pm in a pub on Bankside.

Cost: £15 for the complete day or £5 per session.

To book, please visit: https://express.ts.com/k?curator

Alternatively, participants are welcome to seek sponsorship to help the Museum.

All monies raised on the walk will go towards development of the Old Operating Theatre Museum.   

 

THE APOTHECARY WEEKEND

From Garden to Garret
Saturday 7th June, 2pm

Starting within the fresh herb garden of St George the Martyr Church, Southwark,

there will be a short walk to the oak beamed Herb Garret of Old St Thomas’ Hospital

for a demonstration of traditional medicinal preparations.

Event starts at St George’s Garden,

West Side of St George’s Church, Borough High Street.

(nearest tube Borough)

Garden contains the wall of the infamous Marshalsea Prison

Pills, Potions, Poisons
Sunday 8th June, 2pm

Discover the mucky (and often yucky!) medicines of the past in this

hands-on herbal session for kids.

What was Snail Water? How did people make pills?

And how could boiling oil be used as a medicine?


YOUR BODY WEEKEND

Beastly Bodies
Saturday 14th June, 2pm

Learn the disgusting details of the way in which your body works in this

children’s activity session; blood, guts and all! Listen to your heartbeat,

see a real skeleton, and handle some of the horrible instruments used by the Victorian Doctor.

Anatomy and the Body: Guy’s Hospital Tour
Sunday 15th June, 2pm

The great teaching hospitals of the 18th and 19th centuries, among them

Guy’s and St Thomas’, trained students in the most up-to-date anatomical advances.

This walk around Guy’s Hospital shows where many developments took place,

providing a stimulating history of this Hospital for “Incurables”.

See one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th Century,

wax models of gangrene and scabies, part of the old London Bridge - and a blunderbuss!

 

OUR BLOOD WEEKEND

The Day Of Blood : Part 1
Saturday 21st June, 2pm

“The blood is the life.”

From bloodletting and leechcraft, via William Harvey’s pioneering discovery of circulation,

to the first successful transfusion at Guy’s Hospital in 1829:

a lecture on the living history of blood.

Loathsome Leeches
Sunday 22nd June, 2pm

Learn all about these blood-sucking creatures, used in medicine since ancient times.

See live leeches, and other horrible blood-letting equipment, in a hands-on family session.

 

THE BODYSNATCHER WEEKEND

The Bodysnatcher : From Shroud To Specimen
Saturday 28th June, 2pm

As private anatomy schools flourished in the 18th Century, all were faced with one problem :

the lack of corpses available for dissection. To provide teaching specimens,

even the most respectable of surgeons had the same recourse – to the bodysnatcher!

The chill of winter was the best time of year for anatomy lessons to take place –

and the dark nights aided the bodysnatchers to visit graveyards undiscovered...

The Bodysnatcher Haunts: A Guided Walk
Sunday 29th June, 2pm

To carry out the anatomy at the heart of medical teaching,

the students and tutors of the United Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital required human material.

until the Anatomy Act of 1832 was enforced, the Hospital’s scramble for anatomical supplies

encouraged the Resurrectionist gangs to dig up the dead! Trace the secretive 19th century

Bodysnatcher’s tour, ferrying the newly dead across London.

 

Coming Soon...

A Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the NHS

Saturday 5th July 2008

 

The Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret
9a St. Thomas' Street, Southwark, London, SE1 9RY
Tel. 020 7188 2679 (or 020 8 806 4325). Email: curator@thegarret.org.uk

The Events programme is organised by the Museum Staff and volunteers - in particular (in alphabetic order) Stewart Caine, Sarah Chaney, Kirsty Chilton, Katie Edwards and Karen Howell.