Welcome to Europe's oldest surgical theater
CGTN Europe • 2m 22s
London is home to Europe's oldest surviving surgical operating theater, which is celebrating its bicentenary this year.
It's been preserved as part of a museum offering a rare insight into what surgery was like in the early 1800s.
Then, it would have been medical students crowding around the surgeon’s table learning the art of amputation. Now, visitors can see how going under the knife back then was very different from today.
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