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Firsts and Inventions in the History of Medicine

The Bloomsbury streets where the first vaccination, the first anaesthetic and the first antiseptic happened.

Every Thursday, 14:30Walking

Bloomsbury holds more medical history per acre than anywhere in Britain: the hospitals, the schools, the laboratories and the houses where the people who worked it out lived. The walk is on the trail of the firsts - vaccination, anaesthesia, antisepsis, antibiotics - standing in the streets where each happened rather than describing them from somewhere else.

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Russell Square · 1 min walk

Adult £20, students and seniors £15, children £5

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