Stories
- Article
The blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
- Article
The art of scientific glassblowing
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.
- Book extract
A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
- Article
The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Freedom of Information - The 1984 Campaign for Freedom of Information
Date: 1983-1986Reference: SA/PAT/C/16Part of: The Patients Association- Archives and manuscripts
[Press & Trade Adverts] - Household
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: 1958 - 1967Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
- Online
The state and freedom of contract / edited by Harry N. Scheiber.
Date: 1998- Books
- Online
Aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs : three essays on the powers of reproduction : with some account of the judicial "congress" as practised in France during the seventeenth century / by John Davenport.
Davenport, John, 1789-1877.Date: 1869- Archives and manuscripts
Beecham - Bergman
Date: 1947-1975Reference: PP/MLV/C/2/2Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)