Stories
- Article
Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
- Article
The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist
Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.
- Article
What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
- Article
How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry
Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Would You Mind?' - quotes displayed on LED screen
Date: 2015Reference: WT/NVB/28/2Part of: 'Would You Mind?' installation in <i>The Institute of Sexology</i> exhibition, Wellcome Collection
- Pictures
- Online
Led by the female personification of Germany, the representatives of Germans kneel to the left of the throne of Charles V, while the leaders of the protestant states stand on the right. Engraving after A. van der Does.
Does, Antony van der, 1609-1680.Reference: 39073i- Archives and manuscripts
Lederer's acute haemolytic anaemia.
Date: 1929-1947Reference: PP/FPW/B.20/1Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'Lederer, Miss L'
Date: 1917-1920Reference: WA/HMM/CO/Ear/500Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library
- Books
- Online
L'éducation physique en Suède (mission de 1891) / par Georges Demenÿ.
Demeny, Georges, 1850-1917.Date: 1901
