Please note that our opening hours for week 4 will be slightly different from the usual, as follows:

Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday: 2.15pm-5pm
Thursday: 2.15pm-4.30pm
Friday: CLOSED

Our books relating to the history of medicine are available to search on SOLO. We welcome new readers, so if you would like to pay us a visit, please contact us to arrange an appointment.

Have a wonderful weekend!

‘The Kings medicines for the plague. Prescribed in the year, 1604 / by the whole Collodge of Physitians, both spiritual and temporal. Generally made use of, and approved in the years, 1625, and 1636. And now most fitting for this dangerous time of infection, to be used all England over.’ Royal College of Physicians.
London : F. Coles & T. Vere, 1665. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY