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Good animals, bad humans?

Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.

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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death

Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.

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Care, creativity and a connected world

Find out about the challenges Wellcome Collection has faced during the last very demanding year.

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Out of the mouth trap

After 15 years of speech therapy, Jonty Claypole decided to make peace with his stammer. He explores our fear of disfluency, revealing how accepting it could actually increase our creativity and persuasiveness.

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  • Oliver Cromwell (left) and the Protector kneeling with his head on the lap of Britannia (right): two roundels. Engraving, 1739.
  • In a lady's bedchamber a young woman struggles as a man pulls her towards him clutching at her dress. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
  • People in contrasting situations. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).
  • Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).
  • A young man with an exhausted expression after sex pulls on his breeches beside a woman who gazes up at him and holds his arm; on the wall is an image of Cupid pointing to a downward-pointing rocket. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1736.
  • People in contrasting situations. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).
  • Top, a doctor is handing medicine to a woman whose husband has influenza; middle, in a theatre the woman and the man are attending a film or lecture about the medicine, showing that it eliminates the influenza bacillus; bottom, in a bus or train a woman is giving a pill to her travelling companion, while other passengers suffer from influenza. Process print after Leonhard Fries.
  • A diabetic man after treatment with insulin. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • A diabetic man, emaciated, before treatment with insulin. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • A soldier eyes a prostitute; the same soldier later suffers from syphilis or another sexually transmitted disease. Colour lithograph by Blas, 1936/1939.
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