Stories
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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A sketch, (analytical) of the history and cure of contagious fever / By Robert Jackson, M.D.
Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.Date: 1819- Books
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A second dissertation on fever; containing the history and method of treatment of a regular tertian intermittent / by George Fordyce.
Fordyce, George, 1736-1802.Date: 1795- Books
The life-history of Leishmania donovani in its insect and mammalian hosts / Shortt, H.E.
Shortt, H. E. (Henry Edward), 1887-1987.Date: [1932]- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0000861 - C0000885
Date: 1998-1999Reference: WT/B/11/1/23Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0000727 - C0000769
Date: 1997-1998Reference: WT/B/11/1/18Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive