Library Insights: New for October

Two new Insight talks, designed to highlight the breadth of the Library’s collections, are coming up in October: ‘Ancient Medicine: Secrets of the Greeks’ on the 4th at 3pm and ‘Lovesick’ on the 18th at 6pm. Learn about unusual ancient cures for a ‘wandering womb’ or how the broken-hearted were regarded in seventeenth century England.

Our popular Insight sessions give visitors to the Wellcome Library an opportunity to explore the variety of our holdings. These free sessions are thematic in style, last around an hour and offer a chance to learn about our collections.

For further details, please follow the links above to the appropriate pages on the Wellcome Collection website.

Images: Greek women washing. Gouache painting. Library no. 20407   A love sick man taking some of Doctor Hymen’s pills to try and cure himself. Watercolour painting. Library no. 11395