The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret

This week Maud & I went along to extremely great talk entitled Exquisite Corpses by Robert D. Hicks, the director of the Mütter Museum. It was held in the actual operating theatre, which is housed up under the roof of the old St. Thomas Church.

Before you enter the museum you climb up the original old narrow wooden spiral staircase. Which is the perfect preparation that you're about to go back in time a.k.a. "the Past". It's pretty steep, slightly scary and exciting enough at the same time so that when you eventually find yourself on a landing you are in a fairly good mood. After paying your entry you are then let up the last set of steps to go back in time. Yay!

as you can see, the Past is both pretty, practical and informative

and with dried herbs all around it's the most lovely
fragrant medical history museum I've visited

seriously, what's not to like here folks?

frighteningly handsome looking bottles and plaster

...and then there was chemical pharmaceuticals
( imagine how awful to have/do operations before the advent of any of these aids?)

here's to all you Cider House Rules fans

...and we end with the cutest soldier doll ever!

Oh yes, there is also another episode from this evening coming :)