Stories
- Article
Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Forensic Medicine Lecture: Causes of Sudden and Unexpected Death"
Date: 1936Reference: PP/SPI/D.9Part of: Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist- Books
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Forensic Medicine in Western Society.
Watson, Katherine D.Date: 2010- Archives and manuscripts
'Forensic Medicine. Notes from Guy & Ferrier. July 1883. Univ. Coll. London'
Date: 1883Reference: MS.2707Part of: Halliburton, William Dobinson (1860-1931)- Books
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Forensic medicine and toxicology / by J. Dixon Mann.
Mann, J. Dixon (John Dixon), 1840-1912.Date: 1893- Archives and manuscripts
Notes on Forensic Medicine
Date: 1891Reference: MS.910Part of: Aldrich-Blake, Louisa Brandreth (1865-1925)