Museum Event for Science Week 2007: Two Talks & A Walk for National Science Week
Nineteenth Century patient care at the United Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals incorporated over 30,000 leeches a year! Yet, through the 19th & 20th Centuries, the Hospitals’ pioneering surgeons, physicians and chemists advanced such standard crude treatments as blood-letting, purges and brutally painful surgery to institute more effective, modern, science-based patient care. Two illustrated talks link the early foundations to the development towards modern hospital medicine practice, with an opportunity to see scientific experiments at work. The presentation concludes with a short walk into Guy’s Hospital, to see one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th Century, wax models of gangrene and scabies, and a blunderbuss!