Stories
![](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection%2F0ae1320b-4923-4b51-9526-563d355929c1_londonclinic-feat.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=50)
- Article
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.
![](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/696f7867-e41e-49ee-bff6-f068d506c8e4_Welcome+image+Dark+Matter.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=50)
- Article
Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
![](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/de4212d7-93bd-42ad-bad0-781176a7b8a4_Wellcome-_Scepticism-final.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=50)
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Extract of a letter from the House of Representatives of the Massachusets-Bay, to their agent Dennys de Berdt, Esq; with some remarks.
Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
- Online
Considerations on the dispute now depending before the Honourable House of Commons, between the British, southern, and northern plantations in America. In a letter to -
Z----h, A----r.Date: [1731]- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 4
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1924 - 1930Reference: WF/M/GB/35/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
- Online
Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. The Brigantine Triumph, Benjamin Northam, Master. James Graham, of London, Merchant, the Agent for, and Correspondent of, Thomas Ogden and Titus Ogden, and Messieurs John Wright Stanly, Wright Stanly, and James Green, Merchants, all of the Town of Newborn, in the State of North Carolina, one of the United States of America, and Subjects of the said United States, the sole Owners of the said Brigantine and her Cargo at the Time she was taken and seized as Prize, on the twenty-eighth Day of March, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, in the Atlantic Ocean, between the thirty-third and thirty-fourth Degrees of Northern Latitude, twenty-five Days after the Cessation of Hostilities between his Majesty and the said United States of America, in the said Atlantic Ocean, and Claimant of the said Brigantine and her Cargo on Behalf of the said Owners, Appellant. William Swiney, Esquire, Commander of his Majesty's Ship of War the Assurance, the Captor, and James Heseltine, Esquire, his Majesty's Procurator General, - - - - Respondents. An Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of East Florida. The appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785]- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd