Credit: Report of the Chinese Hospital, at Shanghae, from January 1st, to December 31st, 1849 / by the Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal ...

Elements of agricultural chemistry, in a course of lectures for the Board of Agriculture / By Sir Humphry Davy.

Credit: Outlines of inquiry relating to hygienic, medical, and surgical experience in the war. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library ...

Credit: Good fare in war-time / issued by the Board of Education. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Commissioned officers in the medical services of the British Army, 1660-1960 / [A. Peterkin, William Johnston, R. Drew].

The tenth annual report of the Chinese Hospital, at Shanghae, from January 1st, to December 31st, 1856 / by the Committee.

Today smoking is seen publicly as a deadly vice, privately perhaps as more of a guilty pleasure. Follow tobacco’s journey over the centuries from medical remedy to killer carcinogen.

In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...

A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.

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 ...

A 19th-century campaigner who condemned the practice of keeping a dead person at home before the funeral started a gradual trend for outsourcing the preparation and storage of a body. But as a ...

Did you know that slime cells signal to each other and seek out multiple partners? Welcome to bath time with Abi Palmer – and some revolting yet awe-inspiring grey slime.