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- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 1
Date: December 1881 - May 1897Reference: WF/E/03/01 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 1
Date: December 1881 - May 1897Reference: WF/E/03/01 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 1
Date: December 1881 - May 1897Reference: WF/E/03/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 8
Date: Jul 1904 - May 1905Reference: WF/E/01/01/08Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 4 ['Letter Book HSW Personal 2']
Date: Nov 1896 - Jan 1899Reference: WF/E/01/01/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 22
Date: September 1904 - March 1906Reference: WF/E/03/22Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
Date: 1707Reference: 25289i- Pictures
Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving after an original engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
Date: 1707Reference: 25315i- Digital Images
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Ru cao bian (Ming herbal), Preface
- Archives and manuscripts
'Dartford Museum' - Prints: Dartford site, opening of 'Dartford Museum'
Date: c.1889-1989Reference: WF/M/I/DM/01/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
'Dartford Museum' - Prints: BW&Co Staff, Explorers
Date: c.1885-c.1980Reference: WF/M/I/DM/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
A singular remedy : cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751-1820 / Stefanie Gänger.
Gänger, StefanieDate: 2021- Archives and manuscripts
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Coulon, Guillaume François
Date: c.1825Reference: MS.1890- Digital Images
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Veratrum nigrum L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and, when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying-in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum - and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Audio
Cambridge forum. Health effects of nuclear radiation.
Date: 1989- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Wellcome Trust; 1936-Date: 1910-2022Reference: WT- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0000489 - C0000522
Date: 1996Reference: WT/B/11/1/12Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum; Johannes de Sancto Paulo, De simplicium medicinarum virtutibus and Flores dietarum
Date: 1478Reference: MS.458- Videos
The story of Papworth : the village of hope.
Date: 1935- Archives and manuscripts
Medact
Medical Campaign against Nuclear Weapons (f. 1980)Date: c.1955-c.2008Reference: SA/MED- Videos
Science Britannica. Part 1 Frankenstein's monsters.
Date: 2013- Digital Images
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Veratrum album L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum -and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
- Online
The American new dispensatory : containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry ; pharmaceutic operations ; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica ; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States ; preparations and compositions ; with an appendix, containing medical prescriptions ; the nature and medical uses of the gases ; medical electricity ; galvanism ; an abridgment of Dr. Currie's reports on the use of water ; the cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium ; and several useful tables ; the whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American / by James Thacher.
Thacher, James, 1754-1844.Date: 1810