Stories
- Article
Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
- Article
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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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Private Letter Book
Date: October 1894 - February 1895- Archives and manuscripts
Private Letter Book
Date: October 1894 - February 1895Reference: WF/E/11/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Private Letter Book
Date: October 1894 - February 1895- Archives and manuscripts
Private Letter Book
Date: October 1894 - February 1895- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: c.1860-c.1995Reference: WF