Stories
- Article
Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
- Article
Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
- Book extract
A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Materia Medica [MED] - Naval & Military [NMM]
Date: 1930s-1950sReference: WA/HMM/IC/3/P.6Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
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Horses on board ship : a guide to their management / by M. Horace Hayes.
Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842-1904.Date: 1902- Books
A manual of ambulance transport / by Surgeon-General Sir T. Longmore.
Longmore, T. (Thomas), Sir, 1816-1895.Date: 1893- Books
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Report on the fitness for use in the British service of a wheeled ambulance transport conveyance moved by hand labour (Neuss'sche zweiräderige Bahre), the employment of which is stated to have been attended with special advantages during the recent war between Germany and Denmark in Schleswig-Holstein : together with a history of the class of conveyances to which it belongs, so far as regards their connexion with the objects of ambulance transport / by T. Longmore.
Longmore, Sir Thomas, 1816-1895.Date: [1865]- Books
Essai sur les moyens de transport et des secours en général aux blessés et malades en temps de guerre / par G.F. van Dommelen.
Dommelen, G. F. van (Gomarus Franciscus van)Date: 1870