Plants & Prayer: Health and Healing before 1700

Thursday 30 March – Sunday 3 September  
Open Tuesday-Sunday, 12noon-4pm  
Closed Mondays  
Weston Gallery  
Admission free 
 
Healing is what makes us human – but concepts of health and methods of healing have changed much over time. This exhibition explores medicine, care, and healing before 1700 and some of the changes that led to the development of medicine as we know it today. Healthcare in the past was not just the domain of the physician: priests to apothecaries to barbers all provided different forms of care. Medical manuscripts and books tell us about diseases, treatments, the relationship between healer and patient, and the lengths to which people went to find cures.