Stories
- In pictures
How chloroform shaped the murder mystery
Find out how a sweet-smelling liquid anaesthetic captured the public’s imagination and changed pop culture for ever.
- Article
Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
Questioning the psychoanalyst
Maggie Robbins gives her personal take on the common misconceptions around her field of work.
![Collection de différens traités sur des instrumens d'astronomie, physique, etc. Divisée en deux parties / [João Jacinto de Magalhães].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0063990/full/128%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Parties
Date: c.1920s-1930sReference: SA/PHC/H.1/14Part of: Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, with papers of George Scott Williamson MD (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)- Archives and manuscripts
Parties and musical activities
Date: c.1950sReference: PP/RKF/B.17/1/19-20Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Archives and manuscripts
MRC Working Parties (8)
Date: 1971-1972Reference: PP/WDP/F/4/8Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Archives and manuscripts
MRC Working Parties (7)
Date: 1971Reference: PP/WDP/F/4/7Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Archives and manuscripts
MRC Working Parties (1)
Date: 1968-1969Reference: PP/WDP/F/4/1Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist
