BSHP Summer Excursion 18/7/25

Friday 18 July 2025, 11.15-15.30

Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World exhibition

Cambridge University Library

You are warmly invited to join us for our summer excursion.

• 11.00 Meet at St John's College Buttery for refreshments. Location Link.

• 11.30 Private view of the 18th Century Heberden Medicine Cabinet with Dr Adam Crowther, Dr Chris Duffin and Mika Hyman.

• 12.30 Walk through gardens to Cambridge University Library. Location Link.

• 1.00 Lunch at the Library tea-room

• 2.00 Tour with curator, Dr James Freeman

• 15.30 Disperse, tea and/or optional walk via Darwin College to the Corpus Clock.

We start with a private view the materia medica cabinet of William Heberden (1710-1801), Fellow of St John's College who used the cabinet to illustrate his medical lectures.

We will then have lunch together in the Library’s excellent tea-room before visiting this unique exhibition, the outcome of a Wellcome-funded research project to digitise, catalogue and conserve 180 of Cambridge’s medieval medical manuscripts, containing more than 8,000 medical recipes.

• Cost: Free (a suggested donation of £10 to the library); Lunch at own expense.

• Meeting Info: More details on booking.

• 14 places available

• Meeting location: TBC

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