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 ...

Over the next two years, the Wellcome Library, partnered with digital technology charity Jisc, is collaborating with nine institutions to put 15 million pages of 19th-century medical books online.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Note the second “L” in the title above. Though the images provided at the site are, indeed, welcome, the host is the Wellcome Library, based in London. The visuals at Wellcome-images are from ...

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 ...

This solemn group of posters teaching safety to British citizens comes from the archive of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. The images are from the Wellcome Library’s website; I ...

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 ...

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.