WHERE can you find a torture chair, Napoleon’s toothbrush and Florence Nightingale’s slippers? Answer: In a free exhibition that opened in London June 22, 2007.
They are among more than a MILLION bizarre objects stockpiled by eccentric tycoon Sir Henry Wellcome, an obsessive collector. And bewarned, some exhibits, a sample of which are pictured here, could have come straight from a chamber of horrors. Sir Henry, born in America in 1853, made his wedge when he co-founded pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co in London. When he died in 1936 it emerged he had bequeathed his fortune to set up a charity, the Wellcome Trust, t
o advance medical research. (sources: MAKE: Medicine Man; The Sun Online - News: Things that make you go urrgh! - Link & wellcomecollection.org.
They are among more than a MILLION bizarre objects stockpiled by eccentric tycoon Sir Henry Wellcome, an obsessive collector. And bewarned, some exhibits, a sample of which are pictured here, could have come straight from a chamber of horrors. Sir Henry, born in America in 1853, made his wedge when he co-founded pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co in London. When he died in 1936 it emerged he had bequeathed his fortune to set up a charity, the Wellcome Trust, t
o advance medical research. (sources: MAKE: Medicine Man; The Sun Online - News: Things that make you go urrgh! - Link & wellcomecollection.org. 
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