Stories
- Article
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.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
- Article
The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
- Article
How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0000064: side view of a carved bowl for receiving the afterbirth, Maori, New Zealand.
Date: 25 June 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/2/62Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0000065: bottom view of a carved bowl for receiving the afterbirth, Maori, New Zealand.
Date: 25 June 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/2/63Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive