Stories
- Article
Chemotherapy-day drawings
Undergoing treatment for bowel cancer, artist Clare Smith produced around 70 abstract drawings while sitting in the chemotherapy chair. She reflects on how creativity can bring respite in a crisis.
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The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
[Press Adverts] - Veterinary
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: 1958 - 1966Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
The Treatment of Infectious and Contagious Diseases by the Serum method, by "Civis mundi" Vol I
Date: c. 1898Reference: MS.8498Part of: The Treatment of Infectious and Contagious Diseases by the Serum method, by "Civis mundi"- Archives and manuscripts
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Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Diseases of the liver: fourth series 1905
Date: 1899-1952Reference: PP/FPW/B.191/4Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Archives and manuscripts
Product Publications: Science in Medicine - Wellcome Products for Dispensing
Date: 1908-1953Reference: WF/M/PB/34/03/08Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd