VISITORS to a Worcester museum showcasing the history of healthcare in the city shared some of their own home-spun wisdom this weekend.

As part of the week long Love Worcester festival – a celebration of the city’s heritage, architecture and culture – The Infirmary Museum at the University of Worcester’s City Campus off Castle Street invited visitors to share their own advice for how to deal with coughs, colds, stubbed toes and other afflictions.

Among the home remedies suggested by visitors on Saturday, February 14 – when guided tours were also on offer – was a drop of whiskey for ‘almost anything’.

Museum head Mark Macleod said: “We do this every year and lots of people get involved, although last year the floods hit.

“We’ve got lots of things going on during Half Term such as tours throughout the building.

“It’s for children from six up to adults. Even older people come because want to have a look around the university buildings.”

Visitors also got the chance to make leeches and mix their own potions.

As part of the Love Worcester festival visitors to one of the city’s many attractions, or the Tourist Information Centre on the High Street, can pick up a special passport. If they receive stamps from every attraction in the city they will be entered into a prize draw.

The infirmary was only the sixth provincial hospital outsider of London when it opened in 1771, and operated until 2002.

At a meeting at the infirmary in 1832 surgeon and philanthropist Charles Hastings and a group of colleagues formed what is now the British Medical Association, then called the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association.

For more information on events at The Infirmary Museum call 01905 542 373 or visit www.worcester.ac.uk/your-home/the-infirmary.