Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret

The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret at 9a, St Thomas Street is a museum of surgical history and one of the oldest surviving operating theatres. It is placed within the garret of St Thomas's Church, Southwark, in London, on the authentic website online of St Thomas' Hospital. There is little information about operating theatres at Old St Thomas from its foundation until the 18th century. The church that contains the Old Operating Theatre Museum turned into built at the end of the 17^th century, while the hospital and church had been in large part rebuilt via Sir Robert Clayton, president of the sanatorium and a former Lord Mayor of the City of London.

He hired Thomas Cartwright as architect. The new church changed into geared up out with a massive garret constructed inside the 'aisled-barn' culture. Very little statistics exists approximately the Garret besides that it turned into equipped with timber storage racks, and become defined as "the herb garret" in 1821. Dried heads of opium vegetation had been observed in the rafters. It is possibly that the garret become used by the hospital's resident apothecary to save and treatment medicinal herbs.