Candidates fit for military service awaiting a medical assessment, 1897. Process print after Jos. Straka, 1904.

They hopped me here, they hopped me there until I felt quite balmy, they felt my pulse an' tol me to 'Cough!' an' passed me into the army / Inter-Art Co.

A bride and a bridegroom, as a warning to Americans to be examined for sexually transmitted diseases before marriage. Colour lithograph, ca. 1944.

Sleeping Sickness Commission photos

Physician examines a patient's leg..., 13th Century

Lourdes, France: framed photographic records of cures examined by Dr. Vallet (right) and a second medical man. Photograph, ca. 1937.

That you'll remember me : from one of the Canadian Army Medical Corps.

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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians

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Reports by professors of Army Medical School - arrangements for examinations of assistant surgeons at Chatham, Jan 1861. Also copies of correspondence with Sir James Gibson, War Office, etc., on this subject

A letter to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry : containing animadversions on some parts of their fifth report ; and an examination of the principles on which the medical department of armies ought to be formed / by Edward Nathaniel Bancroft.

An examination of the Report of the Commissioners to enquire into the mortality of the Army / by Alfred Aspland.

Medical facilities available at a modern health centre contrasted with ill health in old-fashioned housing. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.

Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7

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Families fighting for justice

The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians

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Reports by professors of Army Medical School - arrangements for examinations of assistant surgeons at Chatham, Jan 1861. Also copies of correspondence with Sir James Gibson, War Office, etc., on this subject

A letter to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry : containing animadversions on some parts of their fifth report ; and an examination of the principles on which the medical department of armies ought to be formed / by Edward Nathaniel Bancroft.

An examination of the Report of the Commissioners to enquire into the mortality of the Army / by Alfred Aspland.

Medical facilities available at a modern health centre contrasted with ill health in old-fashioned housing. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.

Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7

Wellcome uses cookies.

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Stories

Families fighting for justice

The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians

Two health centres, two ideologies

Images

Catalogue

Reports by professors of Army Medical School - arrangements for examinations of assistant surgeons at Chatham, Jan 1861. Also copies of correspondence with Sir James Gibson, War Office, etc., on this subject

A letter to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry : containing animadversions on some parts of their fifth report ; and an examination of the principles on which the medical department of armies ought to be formed / by Edward Nathaniel Bancroft.

An examination of the Report of the Commissioners to enquire into the mortality of the Army / by Alfred Aspland.

Medical facilities available at a modern health centre contrasted with ill health in old-fashioned housing. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.

Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7