Medicine, health and sickness for tourists in London

I've been meaning to write a post about worth a visit places to do with medicine for a long time. However, there are so many of them in London: The Wellcome Collection, Hunterian Museum, Bethlem Museum of the Mind and so many others. The third of the above is still on my 'to visit' list. I'd really like to make it this coming Saturday, but it's a whole expedition: two hours one way from where I live. Planning a visit to the Museum of the Order of St John recently, I looked at the the map of London and then googled some interesting information about more museums. You may like to read this, Dear Reader:

'Bartholomew Hospital Museum

The Barts Museum tells the historical narrative of the hospital and its work in caring for the sick and injured. The museum collections include historic surgical instruments, sculptures, medieval archives, and works of art, including paintings by William Hogarth. (more to read about the subject of one Hogarth's painting here) The museum is part of the London Museums of Health & Medicine group, and has been described as one of the world's "10 weirdest medical museums."

A memorial tablet on Barts (as the place is called) north wall stating that 5,406 soldiers passed through its wards during World War I.

The museum is located under the North Wing archway and is open from Tuesday to Friday from 10 am to 4 pm. Admission is free, but donations are welcome. The collections are searchable on the Barts Health NHS Trust online catalogue, which contains information on over 50,000 entries and covering an 800-year span.'

Will you allow me another bit from Ms Wiki?

'Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

A chemical laboratory at Barts was the location of the initial meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novel A Study in Scarlet.^[18] Barts was Watson's alma mater. This fictional connection led to a donation by the Tokyo "Sherlock Holmes Appreciation Society" to the Save Barts Campaign in the 1990s.^[19]

In 2012, the final episode of the second series of the BBC drama Sherlock, "The Reichenbach Fall", had Holmes appearing to have deliberately leapt to his death from the roof of St Bartholomew's as a surrogate for the waterfall of the original story "The Final Problem". The hospital was again used as the location for the resolution to Holmes' faked suicide, in the first series three episode "The Empty Hearse".' I haven't known that. Have you?

Ms Wiki will tell you much more of course, just ask her.:-)

You may like to visit Barts Pathology Museum and, should you come from Ealing, you may discover a skull of the famous Ealing resident's assasin. Yes' I'm referring to John Bellingham who shot dead Sir Perceval, the only British Prime Minister to meet his death this way. The Prime Minister lived in a house near Ealing Common. The house was pulled down long ago, but there is a church commemorating the unfortunate PM in its place. It's All Saints Church. We went to see it with a few of Ealing Walkers and Talkers last Saturday, 11 February. You can read about our walk in one of the previous posts, Dear Reader.

Mind you, I must add this: British Dental Museum as I have been telling my dear Polish dentist about it for years!