This exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Sales catalogues: Museum various. Smaller auction houses and estate sellersWA/HMM/CM/Sal/24 ...

M0006987: Manuscript page from Roger Frugardi, Chirurgia, and other medical miscellany depicting scenes of surgery Date: 4 July 1940 Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/76 ...

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, ...

Diseases of the heart : described for practitioners and students / by Sir Thomas Lewis. Thomas Lewis ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Medicine Man gallery has been part of Wellcome Collection since we opened in 2007. It was one of five spaces where visitors can see items from the collections for free, alongside the Reading Room, ...

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 ...