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Ayurvedic medicine and Wellcome and colonialism

The Wellcome collection on Euston Road shows many a wonderful exhibition for the 'incurably curious' they say.  Since November 2017 has curated " Ayruvedic Man: Encounters with Indian Medicine"   an exhibition which runs for one more month to April 8th 2018. Ayurveda translates roughly in English to 'the knowledge of long life'. The knowledge of which Dr. Paira Mall was sent in 1911 by Wellcome to gather from India for the use of the pharmaceutical giant. It's complicated and layered story is put together in a very simply put together in a darkened room with many different types of media, photo's, film, song, and text, and you can move through the myriad of information relatively easily and without too much of a crowd. Dr. Paira Mall Dr Mall, an Anglo-Indian bought up by an 'English lady' who was raised to be a missionary, but 'preferred' medicine, and so continued his medical studies, he served as a surgeon in the A