Discover the history of medicine through our rich and unique collections, which include over 20,000 monographs and 4,000 manuscripts, as well as photographs, illustrations, medical instruments, medals, and a variety of medical artifacts. We also offer a setting for classes, provide research consultations, host a speaker series and other special events, exhibit items from the collections, and issue a regular newsletter and special publications.

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Upcoming Event

Join us November 1-2, 2018, for the symposium Arabic Medicine Conquers Latin Europe, 1050-1300: Methods and Motives. Find details here. 

The symposium coincides with an exhibition, Translation and Transmission an Intellectual Pursuit in the Middle Ages on display in the Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room through February 16, 2019.