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 ...

Our new exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

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Credit: Schola medicinae; or, the new universal history and school of medicine / translated into English from the original Latin and Greek edition, by William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Credit: Anti-cholera inoculation : report to the Government of India / by W.M. Haffkine. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of ...

Samuel Wood whose arm with the shoulder blade was torn off by a mill ye 15th of Aug: 1737. He was brought to St. Thomas's Hospital ye: next day where he was cure by Mr: Ferne.

"Look! I can walk again" : join the March of Dimes : fight infantile paralysis / National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Date: [between 1950 and 1959?] ...

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 ...

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 ...

show credit information for image 'Sex work, stigma and whorephobia' Sex work, stigma and whorephobia. © Jessa Fairbrother for Wellcome Collection. Some years ago ...

In the final year of the First World War a deadly pandemic spread rapidly around the world. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–19 infected up to a third of the world’s population and killed up to 100 ...