Medical report : 1944 / Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne.Princess Mary Maternity Hospital (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) ...

Boys swimming naked at Newlyn, Cornwall, 1893. Process print by F. Frith & Co., 190-. Date: [between 1900 and 1909?] Reference: 2046024i ...

Credit: The physiology of laughter. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal ...

Galen on anatomical procedures : de Anatomicis administrationibus / translation of the surviving books with introduction and notes by Charles Singer.

List of subscribers to the British views, publishing by W. Birch, enamel painter, under the title of Delices de la Grande Bretagne. The proposals are at the front of the first number (Online) ...

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 ...

Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...

Africanus Horton Road runs through the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. My dad studied medicine here before graduating at the tender age of 21 (he was something of a child prodigy). He then moved to ...

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 ...

show credit information for image 'Phallic object, large plaster female figure.' Alfred Charles Kinsey once said that a nymphomaniac is “someone who has more sex than you do”, and Kinsey was a man who ...

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 ...

My whole life had been marked by pain that I never had a name for. My family and I always thought that I just had a bit of a ‘weird body’. I experienced dislocations, subluxations, slipped disks, and ...