Surrounded by saltwater but starved of the fresh kind, Aegina’s residents rely on tankers and plastic bottles to get by.

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

Credit: The human atmosphere, or, The aura made visible by the aid of chemical screens / by Walter J. Kilner. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A.

1 volume 8 ll., 13 ll. 4to. 19 × 151/2 cm., 23 × 18 cm. The original MS. is bound in blind-stamped morocco: the transcript is unbound. Pasted inside the upper cover is the armorial book-plate of [Sir] ...

Volume 2 Cours de microscopie complémentaire des études médicales ... / par Al. Donné.Alfred François Donné ...

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 15.3 x 10.3 cm ...

M0016897: Portrait of Carlo Forlanini (1847-1918) / M0016898: Carlo Forlanini administering an artificial pneumothorax Date: May 1958 Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/152/12 ...

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 ...

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 ...

show credit information for image 'Legacies of eugenics in school' Legacies of eugenics in school. © Gergo Varga (varrgo.com) for Wellcome Collection. When A-level ...

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

show credit information for image 'Geothermal hot spring landscape in Railroad Valley, Nevada, where a Canadian mining company is drilling a new hole in an effort to find large deposits of lithium.