Barts and Barber Surgeons
Barts and Barber Surgeons
What's the significance of the red and white barbers' pole?
Where does the name 'Quack' come from?
Find out the answers to these questions on the history of medicine in the City of London, where you will hear about rivalries between physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, as well as gruesome tales of the Black Death and Plague.
Starts - Blackfriars underground station
Ends - Museum of London
Length 2 hours
