Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.

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

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.

Livre des simples médecines, 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.

1 volume<br/>12 leaves + 235 ff. + 4 leaves 4 to. 20 + 151/ ; 2 cm Original vellum binding, 18th cent. flowered paper back; both leather ties defective. Some leaves are wanting after the 11th preliminary leaf, and at the end: foleave 225 is also wanting.

Mogliettis, Giuseppe de.

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

281 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm

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

Memorias del quinto Coloquio de Medicina Tradicional Mexicana : un saber de extensión / [comité organizador, Magda Luz Atrian Salazar and others].

1 volume<br/>28 x ; 18 cm On vellum: modern stamped vellum binding. Originally there appear to have been 70 numbered folios but in the manuscript's current state original folios numbered folios 9, 10, 19-26, 50 are now wanting; first left and the verso of the last rubbed.

Bartholomew of Salerno and others, practical medical treatises.

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Medicine, Traditional

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Mogliettis, Giuseppe de.

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

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

Memorias del quinto Coloquio de Medicina Tradicional Mexicana : un saber de extensión / [comité organizador, Magda Luz Atrian Salazar and others].

Bartholomew of Salerno and others, practical medical treatises.

Medicine, Traditional

Images from the collections

Images about Medicine, Traditional

Works from the collections

Mogliettis, Giuseppe de.

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

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

Memorias del quinto Coloquio de Medicina Tradicional Mexicana : un saber de extensión / [comité organizador, Magda Luz Atrian Salazar and others].

Bartholomew of Salerno and others, practical medical treatises.

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