Henry Wellcome

This page lists items in the database related to American-born pharmaceutical manufacturer Sir Henry Wellcome (b. Almond, Unites States, 21 August 1853; d. London, United Kingdom, 25 July 1936):

• Burroughs Wellcome & Co’s “Tabloid” in the St. Thomas’ Hospital’s old Herb Garret, London

• Henry Wellcome memorial tablet and burial in St Paul’s Cathedral, London

• Henry Wellcome memorial tablet and medallion in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, Montreal

• Sir Henry Wellcome’s residence in London

• The Giustiniani Medicine Chest in the The Science and Art of Medicine gallery of the Science Museum, London

• The Wellcome Building in London with related items:
  • • • • Wellcome Library
        • Medicine Man
        • Henry Wellcome’s life mask
        • Henry Wellcome’s spectacles and card case

• The Wellcome Museum of the History of Medicine in the Science Museum, London, with its two main sections:
  • • • • Glimpses of Medical History gallery
        • The Science and Art of Medicine gallery

Bibliography

– Robert Rhodes James, Henry Wellcome, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1994, pp. 422
– Ken Arnold and Danielle Olsen (eds.), Medicine Man. The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome, The British Museum Press, London 2003 (reprinted 2011), pp. 397