Shakespeare and the four humours | Wellcome Collection
WEBDec 11, 2016 · Shakespeare and the four humours. Blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile: the body’s four humours were believed to control your personality in Shakespeare’s day and influenced the way the Bard created some of his most famous characters. Words by Nelly Ekströmaverage reading time 5 minutes 11 December 2016. Article. William Shakespeare ...
Boys swimming naked at Newlyn, Cornwall, 1893. Process print by …
WEBThe James Gardiner Collection. James Gardiner Collection: unlabelled photograph album. Boys swimming naked at Newlyn, Cornwall, 1893. Process print by F. Frith & Co., 190-. 2046024i
The history of sanatoriums and surveillance - Wellcome Collection
WEBNov 29, 2022 · At the heart of this approach was the belief that foul air caused tuberculosis. Despite Robert Koch’s discovery of the TB germ, Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1882, the foul-air theory continued to shape 20th-century treatments. The high premium placed on ‘pure’ air as a therapeutic tool informed the growth of …
A medical history of smoking, from cure to killer
WEBApr 2, 2019 · In 1618, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) of London published ‘Pharmacopoeia Londinensis’, the first standard book of medicines in England. In it, the hot and dry tobacco leaf is recommended as a useful drug for counteracting the symptoms of cold and lethargy. Burying the victims of the plague in 1665, Samuel Wale.
Lichtkämpfer, Sonnenfreunde und wilde Nackte : zur Geschichte …
WEBLichtkämpfer, Sonnenfreunde und wilde Nackte : zur Geschichte der Freiköperkultur in Deutschland / Hans Bergemann.
Two naked Sicilian boys, in a classical pose, outside a cottage door ...
WEBPlüschow, Wilhelm von, Baron, active 1880-1900. The Fallaize Collection. Photographs by Wilhelm von Gloeden and Wilhelm von Plu̎shcow. This item requires safeguarded access. You will need to complete an application form before you will be allowed to view this item. Requests are considered on a ...
From female impersonation to drag | Wellcome Collection
WEBSep 24, 2019 · 1 of 17. The term ‘drag’ appeared in print around 1870, referring predominantly to theatrical female impersonators. One suggestion is that it referred, literally, to the long crinoline skirts that would drag across the stage. Another suggestion is that drag may have been an acronym for ‘Dressed Resembling A Girl’.
Incest - history | Wellcome Collection
WEBThe secrets of generation : reproduction in the long eighteenth century / edited by Raymond Stephanson and Darren N. Wagner. Find books, manuscripts, paintings, illustrations, photos and unpublished archives about Incest - history, many of them with free online access.
The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
WEBNov 9, 2017 · Examples of pharmacy signs around London. 5 images. Another graphic symbol closely related to pharmacy is Rx. It derives from the Latin verb recipere, meaning ‘to take back’ or ‘to receive’, and first appeared on doctors’ notes to chemists. In America, pharmaceutical products still bear the symbol to mark the authority of prescriptions.
Louis Wain’s cryptic cats - Wellcome Collection
WEBGouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939. Wellcome Library. He was certainly uniquely attuned to the energy of cats, having witnessed how much comfort their cat Peter had brought to his wife Emily as she died of cancer, just three years into their marriage in 1887. Wain was also sensitive to the healing potential of art, entertaining Emily with ...