' From Bethlehem
Hospital: a pair of ancient shackles ... 9s 6d. From curio shops in Rome: a small mortar and three old books on magic, surgery and arithmetic. 16th century: £1 17s 4d.'-At the time of his death in 1936, Sir Henry Wellcome 's collections of medical, anthropological and archaeological objects consisted of over one-and. a-half million items. Geoff Watts visits
Wellcome Museum of the History of Medicine, which opened last week at the Science Museum in London, and talks to the people responsible for exhibiting this testimony to man's concern with the preservation of health
Producer ALISON RICHARDS