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‘Migrants and Medicine’
This Thursday (17th January), Research Engagement Officer Ross MacFarlane will be participating in the first of a new series of events organised by the Migration Museum Project. Details: Migrants and Medicine: Paralympics, Psychology and Pharmaceuticals What do migrants bring to our… Continue reading
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Newly available: Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT) papers
Papers held in the Wellcome Library relating to the work of the UK branch of Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT) have now been catalogued and are available for research. They can be ordered online through the Wellcome Library’s catalogue (ref… Continue reading
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‘If not duffers won’t drown’
We are pleased to announce that the papers of Roger E C Altounyan (1922-1987) have now been catalogued and are available for research. Roger Altounyan was a member of a distinguished Anglo-Armenian medical dynasty. His grandfather, born in Turkey, undertook… Continue reading
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Easing the way for literature
16th June 1904: a young Dubliner goes on a first date with the woman who will become the mother of his children and (much later) his wife. Eighteen years later – that is, in 1922, ninety years ago – he… Continue reading
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Thalidomide: A Human Tragedy?
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the withdrawal of the drug thalidomide from the market. A number of events are planned to coincide with this date including, tonight, an evening event in Wellcome Collection under the above title,… Continue reading
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The discovery of insulin
Today marks the 90th anniversary of the first time insulin was used on a human patient. A brief summary of this event runs as follows: the insulin was injected into a 14-year old diabetic, Leonard Thompson, at Toronto General Hospital.… Continue reading
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Norman Heatley OBE (1911-2004): the unsung hero of penicillin
In May 1940 Norman Heatley applied for the Philip Walker Studentship in Pathology, University of Oxford. He wrote: Since October 1939 I have been helping Professor Florey (in collaboration with Dr E. Chain) in the investigation of the naturally occurring… Continue reading
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Another link completed: Sir Ernst Chain’s papers made searchable
Our programme to convert all archive catalogues to electronic form passed another milestone this month, with the release to the database of our single largest remaining collection. The papers of the biochemist Sir Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979) comprise some 67… Continue reading
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Cataloguing of Sir John Vane’s Papers
The papers of Sir John Vane are now available for consultation in the Wellcome Library(PP/JRV). Sir John Robert Vane (1927-2004) was an eminent pharmacologist, who published over 900 scientific papers, was joint editor of 20 books, and received over 50… Continue reading
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Case Notes: Aspirin
This week’s edition of Case Notes on Radio 4, is devoted to Aspirin: offering the story of its rise as a pharmaceutical product at the end of the nineteenth century and issues regarding its present day use. It features an… Continue reading