Research institutions and museums founded by Henry S. Wellcome.

Date:
[1930?]
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Credit: Research institutions and museums founded by Henry S. Wellcome. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Physiological Research Laboratories R. A. O'BRIEN, C.B.E., M.D., B.S., D.P.H., Director Langley Court, BECKENHAM, KENT The development of Therapeutics from a largely empirical code into an experimental science is one of the most striking and significant results of the world-wide scientific activity which has characterised the past half-century. The change has been brought about by the immense advances in the contributory sciences of Pathology, Bacteriology, Physiology and Pharmacology, which, indeed, may all be said to date their history as experimental sciences from within the same period. A recognition of this development, and a desire to promote original research in these fields, led to the foundation of The Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, the activities of which cover a wide field of therapeutic investigation in Bacteriology, Physiology with Pharmacology, Serology and Veterinary medicine. The Laboratories are at Beckenham, on an estate of one hundred acres, with seven main buildings containing approximately sixty laboratories. The production of anti-sera and of bacterial preparations for specific inoculation, and the researches in bacteriology and the mechanism of immunity arising from the development of this department of Therapeutics, have been an important part of the work of the Laboratories from the time of their foundation.