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A great museum, I can vaguely remember my primary school dragging me there many years back. |
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Hehe...memories, went here doing O Level History back in 1985!!! Great place, nearly as old as me!!! :o) CF |
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This is one of the places I am going to see during this year's Open House - great to get a sneak preview. Thank you! |
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You have just been in agony having a leg amputated. You are awake and probably in deep shock. You are desperate to escape this place of horror and now you face the challenge of getting down the spiral staircase with your one remaining leg. |
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PoP - Back in the 1860s there was an alternative exit directly into a hospital ward nextdoor - now sealed off. |
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That is one of my absolute favourite museums. I think the thing that (as a former nurse) scared me the most was the photo of the original matrons, who made Hattie Jacques look like Barbara Windsor! Can't say I was too keen on the obstetric instruments either! But it's a fascinating place. |
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At the risk of being pedantic: it's "ST. THOMAS' HOSPITAL" not "ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL" Yes, I KNOW the Operating Theatre Website says the latter. But it's not right. |
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Well, possibly. I tend not to get too bogged down in correct English as, unlike many other countries, we do not really have a recognised authority on what is correct. In other words we don't have anyone who definitively sets the rules. Bill Bryson in his excellent book "Mother Tongue" point out that a lot of the rules of English stem from self-appointed "experts" in the past whose opinion has subsequently been regarded by other self-appointed people as authoritative but in reality their opinion is no worthier than mine or yours. |
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I visited it a couple of years ago, and those surgical instruments make torture chamber reconstuctions look mild in comparison! It struck me at the time how small the operating table seemed and now those pictures of a bloke lying (most uncomfortably) on it really do show how awful it must have been. |
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No lyrics today, Strandman? |
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Interesting point, PoP, but who are these self appointed people and how do you know they're self appointed? Surely the recognised authority in other countries is still made up of people? Rules don't magically appear, do they? |
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Rules don't magically appear but in some countries spelling and grammer rules are mandated by the equivalent of Acts of Parliament which rule that a relevant institution's recommendations have the effect of law. Consider the rules in France concerning use of foreign words or the latest German spelling reform which at the time was very controversial. |
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If you would care to visit the hospital website www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk you will see that I am correct. I'd say that the hospital were "recognised authority" on how to spell their own name. |
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I would agree that if that is how it is spelt by the hospital itself then that is probably the appropriate spelling to use - whether or not it is correct english is a separate issue. |
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Pedantic, you spelled 'grammar' incorrectly with an e. Tut tut, I am even more pedantic than you. I hate the way people say 'haitch' for the letter H by the way. It's 'aitch.' |
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