TY  - GEN
T1  - An infinity of things : how Sir Henry Wellcome collected the world
A1  - Larson, Frances, 1976-
LA  - English
PP  - Oxford, UK
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn505429377
AB  - 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.
OP  - 343
CN  - R489.W3945 L37 2009eb
SN  - 9780191571268
SN  - 0191571261
SN  - 9780199554461
SN  - 0199554463
KW  - Wellcome, Henry S. : (Henry Solomon), : Sir, : 1853-1936.
KW  - Wellcome, Henry S : (Henry Solomon), : Sir, : 1853-1936
KW  - Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
KW  - Wellcome, Henry S. : (Henry Solomon), : Sir, : 1853-1936
KW  - Wellcome, Henry S.
KW  - London : Wellcome Museum of Medical Science.
KW  - Businessmen : Great Britain : Biography.
KW  - Collectors and collecting : Great Britain : Biography.
KW  - Philanthropists : Great Britain : Biography.
KW  - Medical instruments and apparatus : Private collections.
KW  - Medicine : History.
KW  - Pharmacists
KW  - Drug Industry : history
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - Medicine in the Arts
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - Hommes d'affaires : Grande-Bretagne : Biographies.
KW  - Philanthropes : Grande-Bretagne : Biographies.
KW  - Médecine : Appareils et instruments : Collections privées.
KW  - Médecine : Histoire.
KW  - Médecine : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - history of medicine.
KW  - MEDICAL : Physicians.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Medical.
KW  - Businessmen
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - Medical instruments and apparatus : Private collections
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Philanthropists
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Biography
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -