A Wellcome donation

The Wellcome Library has donated to Wikimedia Commons over 100,000 images relating to medical history, rare books, Asian art, and other topics. The images are available from wikimedia.org (progressively) or from wellcomeimages.org under a Creative Commons Attribution only CC BY 4.0 licence (giving credit to ‘Wellcome Library, London’). Example images from this treasure trove include:


Blow fly (Chrysomya chloropyga) – coloured drawing by Amedeo John Engel Terzi


Hebrew manuscript


Indian game of Snakes and Ladders


17th century Japanese herbal

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