Stories
- Article
Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
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The cures and demons of sleep paralysis
Discover the murky past of sleep paralysis, the terrifying disorder once associated with demonic possession
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Seeds for the future
Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Medicine Chests
Date: 19th centuryReference: WA/HMM/CM/Col/106Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers: Shackleton Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Medicine Chests
Date: c.1914Reference: WF/M/I/PR/E47Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Objects: Medicine Cases [Numbered] Folder 13 = 254-256 - Chests include "The Indian" and Aluminium Medicine Chest
Date: c.1890-c.1940Reference: WF/M/I/PR/O01/13Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd
- Books
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Medicine chests, with particular directions / prepared by Samuel Hemenway, Salem.
Hemenway, Samuel, 1777-1823.Date: [1800]- Archives and manuscripts
Universal Exposition, St. Louis, USA Diploma for Grand Prize. For Medicine Chests, Medical Equipments.
Date: 1904Reference: WF/M/C/269Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd
