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Brain 2005 128(12):2755-2756; doi:10.1093/brain/awh692
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During his lifetime, Sir Henry Wellcome (1853–1936) made a great fortune selling practically everything from magic ink to the tabloid. An insatiable collector, he acquired more than 1.5 million items with which to form a museum relating to the history of medicine. Dr CJS Thompson was employed to acquire material and curate the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Anticipating that his estate would provide a surplus, over and above that needed to maintain the pharmaceutical business, Wellcome created a Trust that, in addition to ‘advancing research bearing on medicine conducive to the improvement of mankind’, empowered the Trustees to ‘establish a Museum or Library ... for conducting research connected with the history of medicine, surgery, chemistry, bacteriology, pharmacy and allied sciences’. In the second of two Brain essays on medicine and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alastair Compston

Cambridge


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