IF Henry Wellcome’s wife had read the tales in this book she might not have run off with the novelist Somerset Maugham. Wellcome’s obsession with gathering medical treasures from around the world gave us the Wellcome Library, one of the world’s great collections with more than 2 million items spanning 3000 years. This book presents some choice nuggets, including letters, objects and recipes. If they leave you wanting more, the Wellcome Collection has just opened in London, aimed at providing insights into the human condition. Mrs Wellcome would have loved it.
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