Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World

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...

The culmination of a two-year Wellcome-funded research project, to digitise, catalogue and conserve over 180 precious medieval medical manuscripts, Curious Cures brings together texts, diagrams and case-notes from special collections cared for by Cambridge University Library and twelve Cambridge colleges.  

The Curious Cures exhibition is hosted in two parts: Part One is in the Milstein Exhibition Centre and Part Two is along the North and South Galleries on the 1st Floor.

Booking is essential. Entry is FREE.