Stories
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Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.
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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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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
Catalogue
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Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine : a catalogue / by Renate Burgess.
Burgess, Renate, 1910-1988.Date: 1973- Books
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The history of cardiology : an exhibition in the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine.
Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine.Date: 1970- Books
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Medical ceramics : a catalogue of the English and Dutch collections in the Museum of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine / J.K. Crellin.
Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine.Date: 1969-- Books
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Medicine and culture : proceedings of a historical symposium organized jointly by the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, London, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York / edited by F.N.L. Poynter.
Date: 1969- Books
Publications : January 1983 / Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.Date: 1983