{"id":65320,"date":"2014-01-21T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=65320"},"modified":"2014-01-21T21:44:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T02:44:21","slug":"welcome-to-wellcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/welcome-to-wellcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Wellcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_65322\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cupid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65322 \" alt=\"V0042992 Cupid inspiring plants with Love, in a tropical landscape. C\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cupid.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Burke after Philipp Reinagle, <i>Cupid inspiring plants with Love, in a tropical landscape<\/i>, 1805, via Wellcome Images.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Enjoy viscera? Of course you do! And you\u2019re in luck: as of yesterday, London\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/wellcomeimages.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellcome Library<\/a>, whose specialty is medical history, has opened up more than 100,000 images in its capacious digital archive for free download. Whether your tastes run to the macabre or the beautiful\u2014not to say, of course, that such things are mutually exclusive\u2014the Wellcome galleries have something for you. <a href=\"http:\/\/wellcomeimages.org\/indexplus\/gallery\/Olympic%20Sports.html?f=21&amp;vf=1\" target=\"_blank\">Conjoined twins wearing swimsuits<\/a>? They\u2019re here. A man being hit on the head by a falling flowerpot in Rome, circa 1890? <a href=\"http:\/\/wellcomeimages.org\/indexplus\/obf_images\/4a\/71\/83b4d501a1c8ad7ab3c96119fccf.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Coming right up.<\/a> Or perhaps\u2014the keystone of any collection\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/wellcomeimages.org\/indexplus\/gallery\/Nature.html?f=22&amp;vf=1\" target=\"_blank\">a surgeon letting blood from Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Durham, but leaving his patient in order to attend to a sick horse<\/a>. And it\u2019s not all grisly; above, for instance, you\u2019ll see Cupid, slinging arrows so that the flora of the tropics will be inclined to reproduce. (You know, sexually.)<\/p>\n<p>Click in good health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy viscera? Of course you do! 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