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 ...

Touch Me Not from Fulgur Limited is the first color facsimile of a vividly bizarre 18th-century manuscript of the black magical arts. A few weeks ago, the Wellcome Library announced a new initiative ...

Some 15 million yellowed pages of text and images from arcane 19th-century medical books are about to go digital. Nine British universities and research institutions are sending their collections of ...

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 ...