An infinity of things : how Sir Henry Wellcome collected the world / Frances Larson.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

xi, 343 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-337) and index.

Roots: Herewith please find three rolls of chocolate foil ; A very full and complete volume ; The ideal of my heart -- Tactics: An historical exhibition of rare and curious objects ; Excuse me Mr Treve ; Fellow feeling as a collector ; The whole of India should be ransacked ; An impossible man to deal with -- Outcomes: The finest historical medical museum in the world ; When the whole is complete, it will be an exact facsimile of the original ; This is the history of medicine ; All tied up in knots ; We need very complete collections of all their fabrications ; This International Historical Museum -- Legacies: Shelve it ; Ingrained habits of cautiousness ; Sir Henry Wellcome is dead ; Honour to whom honour is due.