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 ...
This exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.
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 ...
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: 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 ...
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: Poisons in domestic fabrics in relation to trade and art : a paper read before the Society, 21st January, 1880, John Simon ... in the chair : being a sequel to the pamphlet, Our domestic ...
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 ...
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 '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, ...
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 ...
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