I grabbed a quick bite to eat in the Wellcome Collection cafe and noticed the
Lightbox gallery currently has a "Hands" exhibition on. It is small but worth a quick wander around.
There are a number of images related to hands and their place in history of medicine. Pictures ranged from a healer delivering 'animal magnetism' with their hands, to Dupuytren's contracture.
Place: Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE
Closes: Mid-February 2011
Image: Valentine Greatrakes, an Irish faith-healer who claimed to cure scrofula or 'the kings evil' just by laying his hands on the patient.
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