Day: April 22, 2026

By Emily Chircop How did Exeter Cathedral become home to so many medical texts? The history of the Cathedral Library collection is connected to the…

By Emily Chircop For most of human history, smallpox was a truly devastating disease, spreading rapidly through communities and especially affecting vulnerable children. Up to…

By Emily Chircop How did physicians in the past learn about human anatomy? For over a thousand years, they primarily studied the work of the…

By Emily Chircop Until the 16th century, almost all Western medicine relied on key concepts from ancient Greece and Rome, such as the teachings of…