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The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.
Two centuries of putting people to sleep for surgery, from Morton's ether inhaler to the machines of today, free in the Association of Anaesthetists' basement.
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Surgery without pain begins in 1846, and the collection here follows it from the ether inhalers of that first year and John Snow's chloroform apparatus - the same Snow of the Broad Street pump, who gave Queen Victoria chloroform for a birth in 1853 and made it respectable - through the masks, bottles and gas cylinders of a century of operating theatres to the anaesthetic machines that keep patients alive today. A small, free, well-explained museum in the Association's Portland Place house, with the archive above it.
Step-free access
| Monday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
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