Monthly Archives: September 2016

Opening hours w/b 3 October 2016

Next week, we are looking forward to welcoming our new cohort of postgraduate students. As such, inductions will be held on Tuesday afternoon, and the unit library will then be unstaffed for the rest of the week as library staff will be helping out with new students at the History Faculty Library.

Monday, Tuesday: 2.15pm-5pm
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: Unstaffed

As ever, please contact us if you would like to visit the library. We wish you a happy weekend – now that it’s autumn, be sure to eat the right amount of linseed in order to restore moisture to the body and counteract the harm caused by climatic dryness1. This image shows a distinguished gentleman, seated before a painted screen and flanked by two attendants, expounding the health-giving virtues of eating flax (linseed) in this season.

1. May not still be considered substantiated medical advice.

L0034695 Chinese woodcut, eating linseed in autumn counteracts dryness Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org The image shows a distinguished gentleman, seated before a painted screen, flanked by two attendants. In the foreground stands a farmer, holding a flax (linseed) plant. The gentleman is expounding the health-giving virtues of eating linseed in the autumn. Autumn is a particularly dry season, but eating the right amount of linseed is supposed to restore moisture to the body and counteract the harm caused by climatic dryness. Woodcut Library of Zhongguo zhongyi yanjiu yuan (China Academy for Traditional Chinese Medicine) Yinshan zhengyao (Principles of Correct Diet) Hu Shihui Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

L0034695 Chinese woodcut, eating linseed in autumn counteracts dryness; credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images, images@wellcome.ac.uk, http://wellcomeimages.org
Library of Zhongguo zhongyi yanjiu yuan (China Academy for Traditional Chinese Medicine)
Yinshan zhengyao (Principles of Correct Diet), Hu Shihui
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Ancient Medicine Seminar: Michaelmas 2016

Ancient Medicine Seminar

An interdisciplinary research seminar, intended to bring together those inside the University and elsewhere who have an interest in disease and medicine in the ancient world.

Alternate Wednesdays in Term: 5:30 – 7:00pm
Barclay Room, Green Templeton College

Michaelmas Term 2016

6th October
Professor Robert Arnott (Division of Medical Sciences)
Eva Dumann (New College)
Malaria and the Indus Civilisation

9th November
Professor Helen King (Open University)
Representing the uterus in terracotta, metal and fabric: votive wombs revisited

23rd November
Vivien Shaw (Brighton and Sussex Medical School)
Was acupuncture developed by Han Dynasty Chinese Anatomists?

7th December
Dr Alasdair Watson (Bodleian Library and Oriental Institute)
Supplementary Books to Dioscorides’ material medica in the Arab tradition

Convenors
Professor Robert Arnott
Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid
Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus

For further details and to be added to the mailing list
please email robert.arnott@medsci.ox.ac.uk

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

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Opening hours w/b 5 September 2016

It’s September, so your faithful Library Assistant is back at the Wellcome Unit Library and ready to welcome readers and visitors in the afternoons. Next week, our opening hours will be:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 2:15pm-5pm
Wednesday: 2pm-4:30pm

As ever, please contact us if you would like to visit the library. We wish you a happy and sunny weekend.