Not Wellcome
The Wellcome Collection closed its own Medicine Man exhibition on the history of medicine, complaining that it was racist. Some of the treasures it displayed:
– Wax and cloth head of Elizabeth I, half of which shows a face and the other half a decomposing skull being consumed by insects.
– Pair of bellows used for blowing smoke into the rectum of people fished out of the Thames, which some doctors believed could revive them after near-drowning.
– Charles Darwin’s walking stick, topped with a skull.
– Napoleon’s toothbrush, made from silver and horsehair.
– A Japanese papier-mâché figure adorned with acupuncture points, used as a teaching aid.
Zero out
How do China’s – official – Covid figures compare with the rest of the world?
– China has recorded 9.6 million cases, equivalent to 683 per 100,000 population, and has suffered 30,010 deaths, a rate of 2.14
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