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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.

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.

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

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Images referencing 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 referencing 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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