Exhibition shows off when hospital surgery really was a theatre

The operating theatre is one of the most familiar settings in medicine, although most people would prefer not to encounter one while conscious. A new exhibition at the Hunterian Museum now takes a look at this rarely seen space where experts work while we slumber.
The exhibition opens with a painting of the room that gave the operating theatre its name – as originally they were theatres with seating around the sides, for medical students, but also often the curious public.
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