Thomas Radford Medical Illustration Collection
We have recently completed a cataloguing project on our medical archives, generously funded by the Wellcome Trust under its ResearchContinue Reading
Tag: gynaecology
‘Here Beginneth Cytology’: John Peter Smith and the Development of the Cervical Smear Test
Ginny Dawe-Woodings, Wellcome Archivist, writes: The recent acquisition of John Peter Smith’s papers on the foundation of the cervical cytologyContinue Reading
History of Midwifery
For many years the responsibility for delivering children lay in the hands of women. Female midwives would attend to womenContinue Reading