Tag: body

Dr Oliver Wrong, best known as an academic and clinical nephrologist, was a salt and water physician. Meaning that he was mostly interested in what simple substances (such as water, potassium, sodium, and magnesium) could reveal about life – which… Continue reading

The History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series returns this autumn. The 2016–17 series – organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library – will commence with four seminars in the… Continue reading

The next seminar in the 2015–16 History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series takes place on Tuesday 19 January. Speaker: Professor Elisabeth Hsu (University of Oxford) On heart and liver in Chinese and Tibetan medicine: a situated history of not wanting to know… Continue reading

The next seminar in the 2015–16 History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series takes place on Tuesday 10th November. Speaker: Professor Owen Davies Executing magic: the healing power of criminal corpses in European popular culture Abstract: The use of criminal corpses in early modern healing… Continue reading

Join us for this Thursday evening’s free Insight talk: a full-colour forray into the dynamic world of Superheroes with our Ephemera curator, Stephen Lowther. The talk will be richly illustrated with some unusual and rare graphic novels from the Library’s collections… Continue reading

The last seminar in the current series Damaging the Body: Physical Harm and the Self, 1850 – 2010, will take place in the Wellcome Library next Wednesday evening.  Details: Wednesday 2 May Dr Katherine Watson (Oxford Brookes University) Loss of Face: Vitriol… Continue reading

We are pleased to announce the details of a new academic seminar series, Damaging the Body: Physical Harm and the Self, 1850 – 2010, to be held at the Wellcome Library and organised by the UCL Centre for the History… Continue reading

Ever wished you had the ability to accurately judge a person’s character from their appearance? Perhaps you want to know when your baby will be born? Or what message your new beard is giving to strangers? Well, you’re in luck.… Continue reading

Long before and long after the photographer Eadweard Muybridge shot and killed his wife’s lover Major Larkyns in San Francisco in 1874, he has never been far from controversy. The picture above (click on image to enlarge) is one of… Continue reading

A short course in the history of medicine led by Dr An Vleugels, Birkbeck College, University of London, starts in January. ‘Exploring Wellcome Collection: A History of the Human Body in Europe’ draws on the rich holdings of Wellcome Collection,… Continue reading