Stories
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome's Memorandum Book 1893 [Travelling Letter Book]
Date: Jun - Dec 1893Reference: WF/E/01/02/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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A woman's bare foot treading on the shoe of a man with two skulls touching above with the word 'AIDS'; a warning about the importance of safe sex and the dangers of AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1995.
Date: 1995Reference: 677078i- Pictures
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A skull and bones on a grave next to a small picture top left of a couple holding hands, a reminder that AIDS can cause death by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Lithograph, ca. 1990's.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 678822i- Pictures
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The pope reclining forward to kiss the floor with the words in French: 'Fight AIDS: condoms not skull caps'; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 672998i- Books
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Limb-bones, skull, and brain of a case of so-called foetal rickets (? foetal cretinism) / by Thomas Barlow.
Barlow, Thomas, Sir, 1845-1945Date: 1884