Stories
- Article
The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
- Article
Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses
Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Vitamins - General
Date: c.1935-c.1955Reference: WF/M/PL/419Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Vaccines: Poliomyelitis - (Poliomyelitis Vaccine (Oral) - Sabin type, Poliovirus Neutralising Serum)
Date: 1961-1972Reference: WF/M/PL/398Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Vasoxine (Pressor Agent - Anaesthesia)
Date: 1959-1986Reference: WF/M/PL/413Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Leukeran [(treatment of malignant lymphomas) - first marketed UK in November 1956]
Date: 1956-1981Reference: WF/M/PL/180Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
- Online
Persistent hereditary oedema of the legs with acute exacerbations : Milroy's disease / by W.B. Hope and Herbert French.
Hope, Walter Bayard.Date: 1908