Stories
- Interview
Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing
James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.
- Article
The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
- 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
Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
Catalogue
- Videos
The video journal of medicine. No. 6.
Date: 1977- Videos
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The evolution of community medicine. Part 3, The sanitary era.
Date: 1984- Books
- Online
Quain's dictionary of medicine by various writers : including general pathology, general therapeutics, hygiene, and the diseases of women and children : with fourteen coloured plates and numerous other illustrations / H. Montague Murray assisted by John Harold and W. Cecil Bosanquet.
Date: 1902- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 13
Date: March - June 1903Reference: WF/E/03/13Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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A letter to Dr. Ramsay, of Charleston, (S.C.) respecting the errors in Johnson's Dictionary, and other lexicons / by Noah Webster, esq.
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: 1807