Medical Walks by Richard Pusey TD FRCS

City of London Green Badge Guide and Camden Guide. Retired Orthopaedic Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in Anatomy at UCL. Past President of the History of Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Barbers and Freeman of the City of London.

 Each walk lasts about 2 hours on level ground with some stairs. Walks include;
 

• “Samuel Pepys, his Bladder Stone, and his London”
• “Hanging, Burial and Dissection!”
• “The Great Fire, Old London Bridge and Medical Southwark”
• “Walking in the Footsteps of Percivall Pott” Father of Orthopaedic surgery
• “St Giles Rookery  -  Old and New”
• “Medical Bloomsbury”  (the birth of Anaesthesia and Modern Surgery)
• St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Smithfield
• The Seven Hospitals around Queen’s Square
• Tours of the Royal College of Surgeons followed by a self guided tour of the Hunterian Museum
• Tours of the Foundling Museum

Contact: [email protected] or 01277 355761

Self-guided walking tours

Alternatively why not try one or more of these self-guided tours, each taking in several of the member museums?

Doing the Lambeth Pharmacy Walk!
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum has developed a self-guided tour of North Lambeth, the Lambeth Pharmacy Walk, exploring the area's links with pharmacy, medicine and public health. Leaflets are available from the Society's HQ at 1 Lambeth High Street or you can download it here.

From Apothecaries to Florence Nightingale - A Medical Museums Trail
Kevin Flude and Sue Weir wrote this online virtual tour of the group's museums in 2007. It serves as a very useful preview and visit planner: Culture 24 Medical Museums Trail.

London's Anaesthetic History
The Anaesthesia Heritage Centre offers a self-guided circular walk here. This walk follows the development of modern anaesthesia in London and visits sites of importance as well as houses of famous anaesthetists such as John Snow and Joseph Clover. It starts and finishes at the Anaesthesia Heritage Centre, which displays many objects illustrating and explaining the walk.