Stories
- Article
Why even plastic surgery can’t hide you from facial recognition
Once upon a time, plastic surgery allowed a few notorious criminals to evade the law. But today, sophisticated facial-recognition technology has turned dreams of anonymity to dust.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.
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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
- Online
Offprints: Neutron Therapy: Head and Neck
Date: 1971-1986Reference: PP/CAT/C.2Part of: Dr Mary Catterall- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0007934 - C0010148
Date: 1999-c.2001Reference: WT/B/11/1/35Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Videos
The boys joined at the head.
Date: 2008- Books
- Online
A new operation for spasmodic wry-neck : namely, division or exsection of the nerves supplying the posterior rotator muscles of the head / by W.W. Keen.
Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.Date: 1891