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Acupuncture

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Images from the collections

Images about Acupuncture

36 images from works
  • Services at the Positive Place : Winter 1994/95 : a centre in South East London for the support and care of people affected by HIV and AIDS / The Positive Place.
  • Services at the Positive Place : Summer 1994 : a centre for the support and care of people affected by HIV and AIDS / The Positive Place.
  • Services at the Positive Place : Summer 1994 : a centre for the support and care of people affected by HIV and AIDS / The Positive Place.
  • Services at the Positive Place : Summer 1994 : a centre for the support and care of people affected by HIV and AIDS / The Positive Place.
  • Transisalano-Daventriensis Dissertatio de arthritide: mantissa schematica: de acupunctura: et orationes tres, I. De chymiae ac botaniae antiquitate et dignitate. II. De physiognomia: III. De monstris. Singula ipsius authoris notis illustrata / [Willem ten Rhijne].
  • A black man in shorts holds a weight beside two others in a gymn representing gay men with HIV. Advertisement for the Consorcio de Hombres Gay de Color. Colour lithograph.
  • Services at the Positive Place : Winter 1994/95 : a centre in South East London for the support and care of people affected by HIV and AIDS / The Positive Place.
  • Women's event : Saturday 4th July 1992 at 205 Stockwell Road, London SW9. 1.00-8.00 pm : for all women concerned about AIDS / Mainliners.
  • M0014704: Illustration of a human figure showing points for application of acupuncture needles
  • The human body, showing a circulatory system (?) and acupuncture points: four figures. Colour woodcut (?) by a Chinese artist.

Works from the collections

269 works

    • Books

    A guide to hygienic skin piercing : tattoos, acupuncture, ear piercing, hair electrolysis / by Norman D. Noah.

    Noah, N. D. (Norman D.) | Date: 1983
    • Books

    Three Tibetan instructions on acupuncture and moxibustion : a collection of manuscripts of the works of Dil-dmar Dge-bśes Bstan-'dzin-phun-tshogs.

    Bstan-ʼdzin-phun-tshogs, Deʼu-dmar Dge-bshes, active 18th century. | Date: 1986
    • Books

    Jian ming zhen jiu ci dian / zhu bian Cheng Baoshu ; fu zhu bian Yang Sishu, Nan Jingzhen ; bian wei Wang Yuxi [and others].

    | Date: 1989
    • Videos

    Don't die young. Series 2, part 7, The bones, muscles & joints.

    | Date: 2008
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0020036: Japanese anatomical figure of a man used in acupuncture: right side view

    | Date: 1965-1976 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/179/11
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Related topics

Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Moxibustion
China
Acupuncture points
Acupuncture Therapy
Medicine, East Asian Traditional
Complementary Therapies
Massage
United Kingdom
Herbs - Therapeutic use

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