Close look at “Roots of Healing” exhibition includes video featuring curator Matthew Morrison, M.D.
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February 10, 2026
“The Roots of Healing: Six Centuries of Medical Herbals”—on view at the Hanke Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library through March 22—features the long history of written documentation of the medicinal properties of plants.
In his article in Yale News, reporter Mike Cummings highlights five of the many herbals on display in the gallery. His featured selections include “De Materia Medica,” written between 50 and 70 C.E., and the 20th-century work of biochemist Tu Youyou, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery of a life-saving malaria therapy.
Read the Yale News article and view the video commentary by curator Matthew Morrison, M.D., lecturer in the Program for Humanities in Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and an emergency physician in New York City.
