Stories
- Book extract
Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
- Article
The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
- Photo story
Trans masculinity on the record
Curator of the Museum of Transology in Brighton E-J Scott tells the story behind a few of the 250 objects from the collection, and the powerful effect they had on him as he put trans lives on the record.
- Article
Born different
For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0005300: Illustrations of bandages made from a perforated metal sheet and cord, Swahili
Date: November 1937Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/43/31Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
A short history of surgical dressings / by Isabelle M.Z. Elliott ; based on material collected by James Rawlings Elliott.
Elliott, Isabelle M. Z. (Isabelle Mary Zena)Date: [1964]- Books
Contribution à l'étude d'une thérapeutique: l'art des pausements et son histoire / [J Courpotin].
Courpotin, J.Date: 1946- Books
- Online
Cotton and gauze in surgery : their history, manufacture and application.
Date: [1925], ©1925- Archives and manuscripts
M0007808: Bandage on the head, from Cheyne: Antiseptic Surgery (1882), from Cheyne: Antiseptic Surgery (1882) / M0007809: Breast dressings, from Cheyne: Antiseptic Surgery (1882)
Date: 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/67/39Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive