A musical fanfare opens our spectacular free evening of medicinal remedies: an exciting late-night event of diagnoses and cures. Meet a quack doctor, handle live leeches or contribute your own home remedies.

For the exhausted, our bar will be open all evening supplying restorative tonics. Bring your friends to be entertained and informed by a host of medical experts, musical treats and much, much more.

Your very good health

Be advised by a rolling programme of moving pictures in our waiting room and be soothed by our resident nurse. Dare to step into the realm of treatments past when you ask to see if The Doctor is IN.

Meet the leeches

Ever been curious to feel the suck of a leech? Our lovely leeches and their handlers are here to ‘enjoy’. Also listen out for a tuneful turn by Medicine Jack and his accompanist Dr Rhubarb.

Onions, pennies and eggs

Have you got a strange remedy you swear by? Contribute a bizarre home remedy to our gallery display then partake in a healing discussion with a Shamanic practitioner.

Join the doctors

Efficacious, illuminating talks with:

• Dr Ben ‘Bad Science’ Goldacre – The placebo effect

• Dr Roberta Bivins – Alternative medicine’s London roots.

Nail-biting Quiz

We call it a quiz but tempers run high in this scrap between the Orthodox establishment and the Alternative rebels. Choose your side and join Quizmaster Roger Cooter as two teams of Doctors battle it out.

Victorian Medicine Show

The astounding Dr Gripenerve and his band are here! Be prepared to participate in a live Victorian Medicine Show. Watch in amazement as all maladies are cured and testify to the efficacy of his treatments.