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Credit: A treatise on fractures in the vicinity of joints, and on certain forms of accidental and congenital dislocations / by Robert William Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This ...

Material includes correspondence, diaries, drafts of letters and publications, case material, photographs, files on the controversies within the British Psychoanalytical Society, 1939-1944; family ...

Join Enver and Rebekah from our Visitor Experience Team for a soap-making workshop. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll be able to select from a variety of moulds, colours, scents and additional ...

include personal details of living individuals be upsetting or distressing be explicit or graphic include objects and images of objects decontextualised in a way that is offensive to the originating ...

Credit: How to work with the microscope / by Lionel S. Beale. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s ...

"Infertility is a heartbreaking condition that affects nine million American couples each year. It causes tremendous stress, it can trigger debilitating sadness and depression, and it can tear a ...

From ancient tradition to modern gym class, yoga means many things to many people. Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga ...

History is dominated by A-list deaths: queens beheaded, archdukes assassinated. But what about everyone else? How did ordinary people depart this life and grieve for loved ones, and which of the old ...

Human remains and other items believed to contain human remains from Sir Henry Wellcome's museum collection have been on long term loan to the Science Museum Group since the 1970s. The items are ...

Credit: Lunatic asylums : their organisation and management / by Charles Mercier. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ...

Here, Denis Melrose, Professor of Surgical Science at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, discusses different kinds of life support machines for use in major heart and lung surgery. This ...