Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Stories

  • Article

The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet

Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.

  • Article

Synaesthesia, or when senses overlap

What’s it like to see heartbeats, taste Tube stations or hear paintings?

  • Article

The pain that punished feminists

In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.

  • Article

The father of handwashing

Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.

All stories (165)

Images

  • Amputation saws, 16th, 17th, 18th century
  • Surgical instruments, including saws, pliers and hammers. Coloured lithograph.
  • M0008188: Amputation saws, 16th and 18th century
  • M0008189: Amputation saws, 16th and 18th century
  • M0008187: Two amputation saws, 16th and 18th century
  • Surgical instruments, including saws, scalpels and forceps. Engraving with etching, 1771.
  • Men grinding saws in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866.
  • Steel saws, scythes, and other edged implements in steel. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.
  • A naked man hammers an anvil, chops and saws wood. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Six men are working with saws, drills, hammers and vices making chairs, cabinets shelves and cradles. Coloured etching.
All images (311)

Catalogue

All works (727)