Stories
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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The power of unicorns
Discover the unlikely connection between pharmaceuticals and unicorns.
Catalogue
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Chronicles in cartoon : a record of our own times. XI. Science and medicine.
Robinson, Bertram Fletcher.Date: [1906]- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Building: Film Unit Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine (WLTM) Laboratories Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Visitors / Friends
Date: c.1930-c.1980Reference: WF/M/I/PR/W3Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
In sickness and in health : medicine and health care in 19th century French prints a salute to the New Jersey pharmaceutical industry The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 10-August 19, 1984 / by Patricia Eckert Boyer.
Boyer, Patricia Eckert.Date: [1984], ©1984- Pictures
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Patient suffering under conventional medicine compared with health via Morisonian alternative medicine; represented by trees, one bloated and dying under the varied administration of conventional doctors and the other drained of impurities and healthy. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 10766i