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The birth of the public museum

The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.

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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria

A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.

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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.

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Black pepper to fuel fiery fights and cure haemorrhoids

This common condiment was once very valuable and, until surprisingly recently, used as a versatile medicine.

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  • Portrait of Edwin Clarke in the Wellcome Historical and Medical Museum and Library
  • Portrait of Edwin Clarke in the Wellcome Historical and Medical Museum and Library
  • Portrait of Edwin Clarke in the Wellcome Historical and Medical Museum and Library
  • Portrait of Edwin Clarke in the Wellcome Historical and Medical Museum and Library
  • Portrait of Sir John Boyd, taken in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library Studio
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: part of the Library, c. 1954. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: the Library with shelves of medical ceramics. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1954].
  • Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Mesopotamian deities advertising Henry S. Wellcome's Historical Medical Museum. Lithograph, 1913.
  • M0006387: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: drawings of birth postures from Asia and Indonesia
  • M0006388: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: drawings of birth postures from Melanesia and Polynesia
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