Medicine – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Smelly Remedy: Womb Fumigation Illustrated in Seventeenth Century Print

Posted on 12 March 2018 by Special Collections

Swelling, shifting and releasing noxious vapours, the Early Modern womb was deemed to be an unruly organ and the cause of numerous ailments. The symptoms […]

Exhibitions, Illustration, Medicine, women

Cambridge Science Festival at the University Library

Posted on 8 March 2016 by Special Collections

Cambridge Science Festival started yesterday and over the next two weeks, the city will be even more than usually full of inventions, discoveries and experiments. […]

600th anniversary, Archives, Digital Resources, Events, Exhibitions, Historical Printing, Library history, Manuscripts, Maps, Medicine, Music, Science, Special Collections

The medical library of Thomas Lorkyn (1528-1591)

Posted on 21 April 2014 by Liam Sims

On this day – April 21st – in 1564, in the same week as Shakespeare was born, Thomas Lorkyn was appointed as the fourth Regius […]

Collectors and collecting, Incunabula, Library history, Medicine, Rare Books, Special Collections

Epidemic print: medical incunabula and their readers – Incunabula Masterclass – 2 February 2012

Posted on 14 January 2012 by Laura

On Thursday 2 February 2012, the Library will be holding its third masterclass as part of the Incunabula Project. The masterclass, entitled ‘Epidemic print: medical […]

Events, Incunabula, Medicine