your imagination goes grisly in a place like this. there was a box of sawdust below the operating table and beneath the floorboards to prevent the congregation from getting rained on with blood. this old operating theatre is in the attic space of st. thomas church.

the place reeks with drying herbs, and was stifling on the summer day we visited on. there is a small display of surgical instruments, pill making equipment, and information about medicinal remedies of the 19th century.