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✧ Bile Beans ✧

Bile Beans were a widely advertised patent medicine first marketed in Australia in 1897 before production moved to Leeds, England. Promoted as a remedy for ailments ranging from indigestion to headaches, they were claimed to derive from a secret vegetable known only to Aboriginal Australia...

#australia #leedsengland #bilebeans #wellcomecollection #widelyadvertisedpatent #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile_Beans

We're fücked. Let's mushroom. #fungiverse #wellcomecollection

https://pixelfed.social/p/Verocomics/796395058395135054

Potentially harrowing tales of “Living with ME”…

#pwME
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ME #MEcfs
#ChronicFatigueSyndrome #CFS #CFSme

Link to #WellcomeCollection’s website:

https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/living-with-me

🚨 #PSA for #London #UK Peeps!

One of my fav #museums, the #WellcomeCollection is currently having an #exhibition on #Milk, & on Sept 2nd, will have a 'Relaxed Opening' (more even lighting, less lighting, less sounds, etc.)

They will also provide #SensoryOverload aids such as ear defenders, tinted glasses/visors, etc.

Specific *detailed* info is here:
https://twitter.com/ExploreWellcome/status/1695003730108879053

Website: https://wellcomecollection.org/events/ZCQXaRQAANdrSNRK

If you ever get the chance, DO visit!

#Autism #Autistic #Accessibility #GoodExample

Lovely to be back at the #WellcomeCollection today. Many happy memories here.

#London #museum

A Van Gogh etching in a rather unusual setting -- a medical museum.

#medical #museum #WellcomeCollection #VanGogh #etching

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/02/a-surprise-a-uk-medical-museum-owns-a-van-gogh

Why we need to think about neurotypicalism

https://soniaboue.wordpress.com/2022/04/05/why-we-need-to-think-about-neurotypicalism/

#WellcomeCollection ##ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #Uncategorized #SocialJustice #Activism #Autism