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: 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 ...
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, ...
Credit: Commercial. No. 7 (1892). : Correspondence relating to the conference held at Venice in January 1892 respecting the sanitary regulations of Egypt. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This ...
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 ...
In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...
In the final year of the First World War a deadly pandemic spread rapidly around the world. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–19 infected up to a third of the world’s population and killed up to 100 ...
How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...
show credit information for image 'A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin after Louis-Henri Deschamps.' When terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, ...
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 ...
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