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Oxford Medical Sciences through the Centuries

The history of the medical sciences at Oxford is closely entwined with the development of a medical school at the institution, but both clinical and pre-clinical departments have today made the University a world-leader in the medical sciences. Explore the institution's long history of teaching and research through the links below.

Manuscript from 1300s-1400s

illustration from the 1500s © Wellcome Images

ink illustration of two arms and their muscles © Wellcome Images

black and white of 1700s © Wellcome Images

© Pitt Rivers - TBC

black and white photograph of 1900 © St Hugh's

Lab equipment and tools

_{1300s - 1400s: Image courtesy of Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, c. 1448-1455, MS. Bodl. 362, fol. 001r}

_{1500s, 1600s, 1700s: Image courtesy of Wellcome Images}

_{1800s: Image courtesy of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford}

_{1900s: Image by kind of permission of the Principal and Fellows of St Hugh's College, Oxford}

_{Present day: Image courtesy of Nasir Hamid / Oxford University Images}