Stories
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The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses
Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Leukeran [(treatment of malignant lymphomas) - first marketed UK in November 1956]
Date: 1956-1981Reference: WF/M/PL/180Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Persistent hereditary oedema of the legs with acute exacerbations : Milroy's disease / by W.B. Hope and Herbert French.
Hope, Walter Bayard.Date: 1908- Books
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Upon the extent to which Widal's reaction persists after recovery from typhoid fever / by M.G. Louisson and Herbert French.
Louisson, M.G.Date: [1907]- Archives and manuscripts
Midarine
Date: c.1954Reference: WF/M/PL/198Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
CoActifed
Date: c.1970Reference: WF/M/PL/058Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd