Stories
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
Catalogue
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The virtues and uses of the cordial spirit of saffron.
Date: [1680]- Books
A singular remedy : cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751-1820 / Stefanie Gänger.
Gänger, StefanieDate: 2021- Archives and manuscripts
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Livre des simples médecines, in French
Date: c. 1470Reference: MS.626- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd