Stories
- In pictures
Bloodletting at the barber-surgeon’s
Scratchy throat? Burning fever? Broken heart? It all comes down to the same issue: too much blood.
- Article
When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
- Interview
Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing
James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.
- Article
Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
The Barber-Surgeons and the Barber's Company. Extract from 'Clinical Sketches'. July, 1895, pp. 1-3
Date: 1895Reference: MS.628/18Part of: Barber-Surgeons' Company: material collected by Sir D'Arcy Power (1855-1941)- Archives and manuscripts
Printed forms of Notices of Courts of the Barber-Surgeons
Date: 1743Reference: MS.627/26Part of: Barber-Surgeons' Company: material collected by Sir D'Arcy Power (1855-1941)- Archives and manuscripts
Barber-Surgeons of London
Barber-Surgeons of LondonDate: 1858Reference: MS.1054- Archives and manuscripts
Barber-Surgeons' Company, London
Barber-Surgeons' Company, LondonDate: 14 March 1717Reference: MS.5181- Archives and manuscripts
Original warrant for payment out of Prize-money of £300 to the Barber-Surgeons.
Date: Dated 26th Aug 1696Reference: MS.628/2Part of: Barber-Surgeons' Company: material collected by Sir D'Arcy Power (1855-1941)