Stories
- Article
The power of unicorns
Discover the unlikely connection between pharmaceuticals and unicorns.
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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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
- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 17
Date: February - June 1904Reference: WF/E/03/17 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 17
Date: February - June 1904Reference: WF/E/03/17 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 7
Date: June 1901 - November 1901Reference: WF/E/03/07 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 7
Date: June 1901 - November 1901Reference: WF/E/03/07 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 21
Date: December 1905 - April 1907Reference: WF/E/03/21 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd