Title An infinity of things : how Sir Henry Wellcome collected the world / Frances Larson.

Descript 1 online resource (xi, 343 pages) : illustrations (some color) Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-337) and index. Contents 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. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject Wellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936. Wellcome, Henry S (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936 Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Wellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936 (OCoLC)fst00121472 Wellcome, Henry S. London -- Wellcome Museum of Medical Science. Businessmen -- Great Britain -- Biography. Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain -- Biography. Philanthropists -- Great Britain -- Biography. Medical instruments and apparatus -- Private collections. Medicine -- History. Pharmacists Drug Industry -- history History, 20th Century History of Medicine Medicine in the Arts United Kingdom history of medicine. MEDICAL -- Physicians. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical. Businessmen. (OCoLC)fst00842951 Collectors and collecting. (OCoLC)fst00867604 Medical instruments and apparatus -- Private collections. (OCoLC)fst01014222 Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893 Philanthropists. (OCoLC)fst01060593 Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623 ISBN 9780191571268 (electronic bk.) 0191571261 (electronic bk.) 9780199554461 (hbk.) 0199554463 (hbk.)