Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Stories

  • Book extract

My important, ridiculous nose

The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.

  • Article

What the nose doesn’t know

Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.

  • Article

Documents of my breath

Swati Joshi’s childhood bronchitis meant that she couldn’t imagine being able to breathe easily. As an adult, she chronicles her recovery through artworks created using bubbles and her breath.

  • Article

Losing touch

In these pandemic times, when touch has become taboo, Agnese Reginaldo explores the importance of physical contact to our wellbeing.

All stories (10)

Images

  • The laryngoscope : directions for its use, and practical illustrations of its value in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the throat and nose two lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians / by George Johnson.
  • Head of a woman with a disease affecting her nose. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton (?).
  • Head of a man with a severe disease affecting his nose; a detail of the nose, and three details of sores on his thigh. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton.
  • Head of a girl with a severe disease affecting her nose. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1869.
  • Head of a man with a skin disease on his face and a deformed nose. Chromolithograph, c. 1888.
  • Head of a woman with a skin disease; and a detail of a nose with a skin disease. Coloured stipple etching by J. Pass, c. 1822.
  • Head of a man seen in profile with a severe disease affecting his nose; and a detail of the nose as seen from the other side. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1860.
  • A section of a face (eyes and nose) with a disease affecting one eye. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton.
  • Head of a woman with a skin disease on her nose. Coloured stipple engraving by S. Tresca after Moreau-Valvile, c. 1806.
  • A detail of a man's face seen in profile with a severe disease affecting his nose. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1856.
All images (57)

Catalogue

All works (705)