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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

Could You Survive Victorian Surgery?

Sep 3, 2024
43:56

What was it really like inside a Victorian operating theatre? Did people really smoke cigars and eat oysters while they watched high risk surgery taking place? And what were the most common procedures?


In today's episode Kate joins Dr. Monica in the Old Operating Theatre in London, to find out about the sights, smells and screams you would have heard there in the 19th century.


Find out more about the museum here: https://oldoperatingtheatre.com/


This episode was edited by Tom Delargy. The producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.


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