Stories
- Article
Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Date: 1981-1988Reference: PP/WDP/G/2/12Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Archives and manuscripts
"Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: A Short History" by John Symons
Date: 1993Reference: WT/D/2/11/5Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Date: 1984Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/438Part of: DrugScope- Books
- Online
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : a brief description.
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.Date: 1993- Books
- Online
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : a brief description.
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.Date: 1988