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“Life and the universe change our plans”

Artist Lil Sullivan returns to the printmaking workshop for the first time after her stroke, and uses broken and discarded everyday objects to create art.

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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

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Six personal health zines that might change your life

Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.

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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming

Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.

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  • Game animals, birds and waterfowl (23 varieties), lying dead on the ground beneath an oak tree, in a pastoral setting. Etching, by G. Van der Gucht after P.A. Rysbrack (?), 1750/1770?.
  • Dead boars and a dead deer. Etching attributed to James Ward, ca. 1794.
  • A cat born with two heads. Engraving by J. Chevillet, 1756, after J. De Sève.
  • Fish, eels, shellfish and crustaceans (22 different varieties), lying dead on a table and in baskets. Etching, by G. Van der Gucht after P.A. Rysbrack, 1750/1770.
  • A dead boar, deer, pheasants and other animals. Etching attributed to James Ward, ca. 1794.
  • A fern frond, leaves and grasses framing a rectangular space. Nature print.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the American Car and Foundry Company transportation exhibit. Photograph, 1904.
  • A fern with an oval space framed by the fronds. Nature print.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: a Brazilian agricultural exhibit: coils of rope and brooms. Photograph, 1904.
  • Stones or crystals from Mount Vesuvius. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
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