Date: Open Monday - Saturday through 6 December 2025
Times: 9:00am - 6:30pm (weekdays), 9:00am - 4:30pm (Saturdays). Closed on bank holidays
Location: Cambridge University Library
Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors.
Discover a time when unusual ingredients and questionable remedies mixed with genuine curiosity about how bodies function, creating a complex and intriguing world of ritual healing, herbal recipes, stargazing and surgery. Come and see what the doctor ordered...
Please note that booking is required for this exhibition.
Free tickets available via the Cambridge University Library website.
Queries can be directed to events@lib.cam.ac.uk.