If you fancy your very own piece of the often barbaric and macabre history of medicine, then a new collection of over a hundred thousand ancient images could be for you. Wellcome Images, one of the ...

Oil painting by George Sidebottom, a patient at the Retreat in York (1890–1900) (courtesy Retreat Archives, all images via Wellcome Library) A few weeks ago, the Wellcome Library announced a new ...

As Egypt hints at an Arabic spring in science, Western museums and institutions are highlighting the rich Arabic roots of science past. I wrote a few weeks ago about a new exhibit on Arabick roots at ...

Ben Valsler: Sited on Euston road in London, the Wellcome Collection combines three contemporary galleries together with the world famous Wellcome library and a new forum for public debate on science.

“The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net.” Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume. (all images courtesy Wellcome Library) Striking visuals have long been essential to disease awareness, using art to ...

IF Henry Wellcome’s wife had read the tales in this book she might not have run off with the novelist Somerset Maugham. Wellcome’s obsession with gathering medical treasures from around the world gave ...

The Wellcome Library has released over 100,000 historical medical, science, and art images, and they are gorgeous, strange, and a little macabre. Here are some of our favorites, which include an early ...

Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library Vol. 1: Books printed before 1641. Pp. xv + 407. (London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1962.) 210s.; 30 dollars.

The Wellcome Research Library of the Royal Society of Medicine is, in a number of respects, analogous to the Boston Medical Library. They are comparable in size, the British institution containing 250 ...