Businessman and philanthropist Sir Henry Wellcome-co-founder of Burroughs Wellcome & Co., one of the first giant pharmaceutical companies--was fascinated by anthropology and the history of medicine. His great ambition was to trace the story of the human body, in sickness and in health, through the entire sweep of history. By the time he died in 1936, he had built up one of the largest and most extraordinary museum collections in the world. Estimated to be five times the size of the Louvre, his collection is now scattered among a hundred institutions. This is a richly illustrated anthology of writing inspired by the museum's objects.