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- Archives and manuscripts
Film - The Pyrethrum Story
Date: c 1960Reference: WF/C/M/AV/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Mr Shepherd - transactions
Date: 21 Aug 1870 - 10 Oct 1892Reference: WF/C/M/H/26Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Letter from Pan American Airways to Dr Grüneberg
Date: 12 Aug 1948Reference: HALDANE/3/1/1/3/25Part of: Haldane Papers- Digital Images
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Taxus baccata L. Taxaceae European Yew. Trees are feminine in Latin, so while Taxus has a masculine ending (-us), its specific name, baccata (meaning 'having fleshy berries' (Stearn, 1994)), agrees with it in gender by having a female ending ( -a). Distribution: Europe. Although regarded as poisonous since Theophrastus, Gerard and his school friends used to eat the red berries (they are technically called 'arils') without harm. Johnson clearly ate the fleshy arils and spat out the seed, which is as poisonous as the leaves. It is a source of taxol, an important chemotherapeutic agent for breast and other cancers. It was first extracted from the bark of T. brevifolia, the Pacific yew tree, in 1966. About 1,100 kg of bark produces 10 g of taxol, and 360,000 trees a year would have been required for the needs of the USA – an unsustainable amount. In 1990 a precursor of taxol was extracted from the needles of the European yew so saving the Pacific trees. It is now produced in fermentation tanks from cell cultures of Taxus. Curiously, there is a fungus, Nodulisporium sylviforme, which lives on the yew tree, that also produces taxol. Because taxol stops cell division, it is also used in the stents that are inserted to keep coronary arteries open. Here it inhibits – in a different way, but like anti-fouling paint on the bottom of ships – the overgrowth of endothelial cells that would otherwise eventually block the tube. The economic costs of anticancer drugs are significant. Paclitaxel ‘Taxol’ for breast cancer costs (2012) £246 every 3 weeks
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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Two Greenwich Pensioners sitting in the garden of a tavern, near the Hospital, a woman behind listening to them, another Pensioner in the distance on the right. Mezzotint, 1791.
Date: 22 March 1791Reference: 31286i- Archives and manuscripts
2T records: 2T579-2T590
Date: 1987-1989Reference: SA/TIH/B/1/7/49Part of: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations- Archives and manuscripts
Circulars Book 22
Burroughs Wellcome & Company LimitedDate: 1914-1916Reference: WF/M/GB/01/23Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
William F Horton Letter Books
Date: 1894-1895Reference: WF/E/11Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 4
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1924 - 1930Reference: WF/M/GB/35/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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Eighty Christian ministers are burnt to death on the order of Emperor Valens in a boat with Roman soldiers looking on from the safety of an adjacent boat. Etching.
Reference: 43105i- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 2
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1912 - 1921Reference: WF/M/GB/35/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
2T records: 2T537-2T556 [missing 2T538; 2T543-2T545]
Date: 1982-1987Reference: SA/TIH/B/1/7/46Part of: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 7
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1935 - 1940Reference: WF/M/GB/35/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
Foochow, Fukien province, China: the foreign settlement. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1870Reference: 18912i- Archives and manuscripts
Board Meeting Papers
Date: Mar 1948Reference: WF/C/E/01/247Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
Places visited by T.C.M. Drawings and watercolours, 1872-1879.
T.C.M., British army officer.Date: [1872-1879]Reference: 40180i- Archives and manuscripts
National Union of Seamen Project
Date: 1978-1981Reference: SA/TIH/B/2/55Part of: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations- Archives and manuscripts
Board Meeting Papers, Secretariat [William Cooper & Nephews / Cooper, McDougall & Robertson]
Date: Jan 1920 - Jun 1971Reference: WF/C/E/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Exercise books
Date: c.1910-1991Reference: SA/PHC/D.3/24Part of: Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, with papers of George Scott Williamson MD (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)- Archives and manuscripts
Papers of Sir Thomas Longmore
Date: c.1776-1945Reference: RAMC/1139Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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Personal Letter Book
Date: Jan 1906 - Jan 1907Reference: WF/E/01/02/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
Tavistock Institute of Human RelationsDate: 1940s-2000sReference: SA/TIH- Archives and manuscripts
Sites: Overseas (USA: Greenville; Tuckahoe; New York; Research Triangle Park)
Date: c.1910- c.1990Reference: WF/M/I/PR/S33Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Travelling Letter Book
Date: Dec 1901 - Mar 1902Reference: WF/E/01/02/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Album of photographs of the Retreat
Date: Late 19th - early 20th centuryReference: RET 1/8/9/14Part of: The Retreat Archive