Over 1.1 million items exploring art, health, culture and what it means to be human. Our South Asian collections include historical manuscripts in the region’s many languages, documents from the ...
This exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.
Sir Charles Bell's watercolours of wounds sustained by soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815
The originals may be consulted at the Museum of Military Medicine. A digitised copy is available to view via the online catalogue on the Wellcome Collection website. A facsimile set of colour ...
Credit: Ophthalmia neonatorum : with especial reference to its causation and prevention / by Sydney Stephenson. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey ...
Credit: The American eclectic materia medica and therapeutics / John M. Scudder. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, ...
You can use this work for any purpose, as long as it is not primarily intended for or directed to commercial advantage or monetary compensation. You should also provide attribution to the original ...
Credit: Notes, medical and surgical, taken during the late siege of Lucknow / by H.M. Greenhow. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons ...
Africanus Horton Road runs through the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. My dad studied medicine here before graduating at the tender age of 21 (he was something of a child prodigy). He then moved to ...
Wellcome Collection is built on collections assembled by Sir Henry Wellcome. In the early 20th century Wellcome founded a private historical medical museum closely linked with his pharmaceutical ...
show credit information for image 'Phallic object, large plaster female figure.' Alfred Charles Kinsey once said that a nymphomaniac is “someone who has more sex than you do”, and Kinsey was a man who ...
show credit information for image 'Legacies of eugenics in school' Legacies of eugenics in school. © Gergo Varga (varrgo.com) for Wellcome Collection. When A-level ...
In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...
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