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  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear : Otosporin drops.
  • M0006590: Kwanyama woman giving an enema to a boy
  • M0006587: Kwanyama woman giving an enema to a boy / M0006587EA: Kwanyama woman giving an enema to a boy / M0006587EB: Kwanyama woman giving an enema to a boy / M0006588: Kwanyama woman giving an enema to a boy
  • Effigy of a shaman, Haida, Queen charlotte Island.
  • Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening
  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • A medical myth : parsley for urinary disease.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • <i>Livre des simples médecines</i>, in French
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: an exhibition on prehistoric medicine opened in 1951. Photograph.
  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
  • The pains of gout could be eased by boiling rosemary leaves and tying them, wrapped in linen, round the afflicted members : Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, E. & M. Radford : 'Zyloric' Allopurinol.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after a photograph attributed to O.S.M. Temple.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: looking through the Primitive Medicine Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1939].
  • To cure mumps the patient was led by an ass-halter three times round a pig-sty : a handbook of Irish folklore : G. O'Suilleabhain : 'Pro-Actidil'.
  • M0018901: Carved wooden birds from a traditional healer's medicine bag, Cameroon
  • When cough iteslf is the chief concern Actifed Compound Linctus quickly quietens cough.
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear : Otosporin drops.
  • Wherever gout strikes Zyloric protects : collection of bark for medicinal purposes ...
  • Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.
  • <i>Livre des simples médecines</i>, in French
  • M0014472: A traditional healer from the Kakadu tribe sucking on the torso of a patient to remove a foreign body or evil spirit, Australia
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • A fever - smear the wrists, 5" - 6" long with treacle - and cover it with brown paper...'Primitive Physic' John Wesley : 'Emprazil' tablets.
  • An Aboriginal medicine man or shaman from the Kakadu tribe sucking the illness from a patient. Process print after B. Spencer, 1914.
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.