Sir Henry Wellcome

Henry Wellcome

fo'c'sle-study running his naval household with the aid of an Admiralty of natural history suppliers and breeders, as well as experts like Lyell, Hooker and the young Huxley in every port. Beatrice Webb once likened Herbert Spencer to a spider collecting facts on the theoretical web he was spinning; the image equally well suits Darwin. A pleasure to read, this exciting new biography deepens our...

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. Sir Henry Dale's laboratory notebooks, 1914-1919.

The laboratory notebooks of scientists are among the sources available to historians trying to reconstruct and understand the past. The usefulness of such material varies immensely, providing at the very least a bare outline of experimental procedures and results. At a different level notebooks have been used to illuminate the cognitive processes of the scientists themselves, an approach that h...

Sir Henry Hallett Dale and acetylcholine story.

Living organisms depend upon their nervous systems to provide integrated responses to environmental stresses. Due to Chiarles Sherrington we recognize that the key to understanding nervous integration resides not in the body of the cell or in its long filamentous axon, nor in the ionic slhifts involved in electrical propagation, but rather in the subtle events occurring at the gap between nerve...

Sir Henry Dale, The Great Investigator.

Sir Henry Dale, THe GreaT inveSTiGaTor Henry Dale (1875-1968), a Londoner by birth was one of the most productive scientists in contemporary England, and was endowed with extraordinary and active longevity. He completed his medical training from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. After choosing to work in basic investigations, he joined the Physiology Department of University College and worked under ...

Sir Henry Thompson's Stricture of Urethra