Events: detail
Tall Ships and Tropical Diseases
- Hosted by:
- Wellcome Collection
- Speaker:
-
Ross MacFarlane, archivist, Wellcome Library
- Starts:
- October 12, 2008 at 12:00 pm
- Ends:
- October 12, 2008 at 02:00 pm
- Location:
- Cutty Sark Underground Station, London Underground Ltd., Creek Road, London, SE10 9SW United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
Until the mid-20th century London was one of the world’s largest ports. Trade with other nations and our empire brought fabulous wealth, intoxicating power and new medicines, but ships also returned with less welcome discoveries such as cholera and typhoid. Walk in the footsteps of naval surgeons, merchants, tars and astronomers, as you trace the relationship between medicine and the powerful British impulse to trade and conquer.
With Ross MacFarlane, archivist, Wellcome Library
This is an adapted version of a walk published in ‘Medical London: City of Disease, City of Cures’.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
Please note that this circular walk starts and ends at Cutty Sark Tube station.
For more information
- Contact person:
- Wellcome Collection Events
- Phone:
- 020 7611 2222
- Email:
- events [ at ] wellcomecollection.org
- Website:
- Tall Ships and Tropical Diseases
