Stories
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Mapping the body
These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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Western magic’s fascination with the foreigner
Could modern magic shows be perpetuating damaging cultural stereotypes? Shelley Saggar shows how ‘exotic’ costumes and imagery are far from harmless fun.
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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.
Catalogue
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Illustrations of Indian botany / by Robert Wight.
Date: 1840- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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An Indian man reaches out to touch his young bride who wears a red sari that covers her face; a woman raising her arms in terror as flames envelop her and all her belongings, a man setting off to earn his fortune abroad with a blue sack over his shoulder and a woman (his wife?) staying at home stirring a pot; an AIDS prevention advertisement within a decorative border by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
Date: March 1995Reference: 677452i- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health
Society of Medical Officers of HealthDate: 1856-1998Reference: SA/SMO- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HED-HOO
Date: 1804-1913Reference: MS.8916