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Non-European medicine

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  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening
  • Amulets of ivory, Belgian Congo, Africa.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Medicine for fever of smallpox, Ekor Country Medicine creation for fever, Uyanga
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    Pendant or receptacle, Ancient American

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    Amulet 'for warding off the evils of war and sickness'.

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    Amuletic necklet, made of bones of relative, Andaman Islands

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    Rain charms- DOIOM from Expeditions to the Torres Straits

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    Amuletic objects of stone in the form of a hand, Bolivia.

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