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.

Medical Exchanges: Mapping the Human Body in Japan and China. December 12, 2016 - July 14, 2017.