TY  - BOOK
AU  - Larson,Frances
TI  - An infinity of things: how Sir Henry Wellcome collected the world 
SN  - 9780191571268
AV  - R489.W3945 L37 2009eb
U1  - 610.92 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford, UK
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Wellcome, Henry S.
KW  - Wellcome, Henry S
KW  - Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
KW  - London
KW  - Wellcome Museum of Medical Science
KW  - swd
KW  - Businessmen
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - Philanthropists
KW  - Medical instruments and apparatus
KW  - Private collections
KW  - Medicine
KW  - History
KW  - Pharmacists
KW  - Drug Industry
KW  - history
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - Medicine in the Arts
KW  - Hommes d'affaires
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Philanthropes
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Appareils et instruments
KW  - Collections privées
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - history of medicine
KW  - aat
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Physicians
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Medical
KW  - fast
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-337) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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