Over 80,000 rare books cover topics such as surgery, pharmacy, botany, cookery and hospital care.

Handwritten papers from the 15th to the 20th c. show personal experiences and ideas about medicine and science and cover several languages.

The library has over 1,000 medical & scientific artifacts, from glass eyes to traveling pharmaceutical kits (above), from the 19th & 20th c.

Bodies and Spirits: Health and the History of Fermentation and Distillation, September 2015 - May 2016.