Author: Ross Macfarlane

The next seminar in the 2013-14 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 29th October. Details: François-Olivier Touati (Université François-Rabelais, Tours) ‘Between the East and the West: transmission of diseases, connection of medical responses during the Middle… Continue reading

The first seminar in the 2013-14 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 15th October. Details: Anita Guerrini (Oregon State) ‘The Galenist as Mechanist: Claude Perrault and the Natural History of Animals’ Abstract: Claude Perrault (1613-1688)… Continue reading

With the current resurgence of interest in London’s lost rivers, there’s a case to be made that perhaps the capital’s most unknown waterway is actually hidden in plain sight. Whilst your Fleets, Tyburns and Effras have the occluded air of… Continue reading

Following a successful first year, the History of Pre-Modern seminar series returns this autumn.  The 2013-14 series – organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library – will commence with four… Continue reading

August 21st, 2013 marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Wellcome. This month also marks the centenary of one of the most important events in Wellcome’s life: August 1913 was the month that the Wellcome Historical Medical… Continue reading

We appreciate that there are going to be disruptions over the coming months and we’re looking at ways to make things easier for you when you’re using the Library. It will get noisy in places during this phase of development works.… Continue reading

Hello, and welcome to On Giant’s Shoulders #61 the monthly online carnival of history of science blogging, this month hosted at the Wellcome Library’s blog.   What follows is a selection of posts from the last month from the world of… Continue reading

Dr Simon Chaplin, Head of the Wellcome Library, will be giving a lecture about the surgeon Everard Home at the Hunterian Museum in London on Tuesday 14th May at 13.00. “Who was the real Everard Home (1756-1832)? Was he a brilliant… Continue reading

Sarah Gilbert recently completed an MPhil looking at Anglo-Saxon medical recipes recorded outside of the main medical compendia from the period. One of the most interesting manuscripts that she looked at was Wellcome Library, MS.46. She will be undertaking a… Continue reading

In preparation for the upcoming development works, Library staff are moving pre-1900 books from the open shelves in the Medical Collection to the onsite Library stacks. We will be moving the books over a period of a few weeks, in… Continue reading