Ken Arnold & Danielle Olsen (ed.). Medicine man: the forgotten museum of Henry Wellcome.

Ken Arnold & Danielle Olsen (ed.). Medicine man: the forgotten museum of Henry Wellcome. 416 pages, colour & b&w illustrations. 2003. London:BritishMuseum British Museum,the national repository in London for treasures in science and art. Located in the Bloomsbury section of the city, it has departments of antiquities, prints and drawings, coins and medals, and ethnography. Press; 0-7141-2794-9 paperback 19.99 [pounds sterling]. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Henry Wellcome Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (born August 21 1853 in Wisconsin, died July 25, 1936 in London) was an American-British pharmaceutical entrepreneur.He was born in a frontier log cabin to Rev. S. C. , Medicineman, amassed an enormous collection of ethnographic eth��nog��ra��phy?n.The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures.eth��nog and archaeologicalobjects to illustrate the history and cultural anthropology of healthand medicine. It has, indeed, been somewhat forgotten, partly because itwas dispersed for legal reasons, although the progressive distributionhas enriched several museums. The book is intended to accompany theWellcome Trust's current exhibition at the British Museum. Following the editors' introduction are six well directedchapters, including a contribution by C. Gosden on the archaeology, whodescribes Wellcome's digs in the Sudan, in which O.G.S. Crawfordhelped to direct 4000 diggers--"despite occasional difficultieswith Wellcome ... a life-changing ... experience' forANTIQUITY'S founder (p. 173)! The multitude of illustrations hasbeen designed most imaginatively and very effectively.