| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 343 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A NOTE ON MONEY; 1. Quite indescribable disorder; PART I. ROOTS; PART II. TACTICS; PART III. OUTCOMES; PART IV. LEGACIES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
An Infinity of Things tells the story of one of the largest private collections ever created, and the life of the man behind it. Wellcome planned a great museum filled with treasures from all corners of the globe, charting the history of human health from prehistory to the present day. The breadth of his vision was matched only by the depth of his pockets. During the opening decades of the twentieth century he acquired a collection so large that later generations of staff took to describing its contents by the ton. But Wellcome's museum was never finished, and his collection was still stored i |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-337) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936.
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Wellcome, Henry S (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936 |
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Wellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936 fast |
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Wellcome, Henry S. swd |
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum |
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London -- Wellcome Museum of Medical Science. swd |
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Businessmen -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Philanthropists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Medical instruments and apparatus -- Private collections
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Medicine -- History.
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Pharmacists
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Drug Industry -- history
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History, 20th Century
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History of Medicine
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Medicine in the Arts
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history of medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Physicians.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
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Businessmen
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Collectors and collecting
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Medical instruments and apparatus -- Private collections
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Medicine
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Philanthropists
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
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Great Britain
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191571268 |
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0191571261 |
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