Remedial Reading: Medicine in the Whipple Library Collection

The history of medicine is a record not only of scientific progress but also of the changing ways in which people have sought to understand, describe, and preserve health. The Whipple Library holds a significant collection of medical texts spanning centuries. This exhibition brings together a selection of these works, ranging from the sixteenth century to the twentieth, to illustrate how medical knowledge was transmitted, debated, and transformed across time.

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