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Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.

Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear Otosporin drops.

Ceremonial rattle representing the 'thunder-bird'. Haida, Queen Charlotte Island, British Columbia.

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

M0000038: Palang (ampallang) beneath a photograph of it in use

A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.

An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Watercolour.

A medical myth : Parsley for urinary disease.

Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.

Falcutius, Nicolaus ( -1412)

Visionary vine : psychedelic healing in the Peruvian Amazon / [Marlene Dobkin de Rios].

Billard, Michael

Recipes and everyday knowledge : medicine, science, and the household in early modern England / Elaine Leong.

Le Cat, Claude Nicolas (1700-1768)

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Medicine, Traditional

Images from the collections

Images about Medicine, Traditional

Works from the collections

Falcutius, Nicolaus ( -1412)

Visionary vine : psychedelic healing in the Peruvian Amazon / [Marlene Dobkin de Rios].

Billard, Michael

Recipes and everyday knowledge : medicine, science, and the household in early modern England / Elaine Leong.

Le Cat, Claude Nicolas (1700-1768)

Medicine, Traditional

Images from the collections

Images about Medicine, Traditional

Works from the collections

Falcutius, Nicolaus ( -1412)

Visionary vine : psychedelic healing in the Peruvian Amazon / [Marlene Dobkin de Rios].

Billard, Michael

Recipes and everyday knowledge : medicine, science, and the household in early modern England / Elaine Leong.

Le Cat, Claude Nicolas (1700-1768)

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