Stories
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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How your hairdresser could save your life
Barbers and hairdressers have a unique view of us – one that means they can spot potentially dangerous health problems. Find out how buzzcuts can lead to blood-pressure checks, and dip-dyes show the way to the dermatologist.
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How I cured my fear of vomiting
Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.
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Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: c.1860-c.1995Reference: WF- Pictures
William Pitt the younger standing full face wearing mock-Elizabethan dress with a feathered hat, his left hand extended and the other holding out a stick. Etching after G. M. Woodward, 1791.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: June 20 1791Reference: 585378i
- Mixed materials
Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
Sayre, Lewis A. (Lewis Albert), 1820-1900.Date: 1877
- Ephemera
- Online
The Highland Youth is upstairs, first floor, and performs every half-hour from 12 till 6. ... : the truly entitled Double-Sighted Scotch Youth, Louis Gordon M'Kean, only 8 years old! One of the greatest prodigies of the age!.
Date: [1832?]
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A skeleton of a new born child with deformed hips who died of asphyxia in birth. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
Leopold, G. (Gerhard), 1846-1911.Date: 1908Reference: 17140i