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.

<i>Livre des simples médecines</i>, 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.

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

1 volume 188 ll. folio. 30 x 20 1/2 cm. On vellum and paper, in quires of two vellum and six paper leaves. 19th cent. diced calf binding. The end is wanting, and fol. 18 has been almost entirely torn out: lower margin of the last leaf slightly cut, and text rubbed.

Falcutius, Nicolaus ( -1412)

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

1 volume 10 ll. + 16 bl. ll. + 20 ll. + 26 ll. + 3 ll. + 7 bl. ll. + 1 l. + 26 bl. ll. 41 ll. 4to. 261/2 x 201/2 cm. Original lime vellum binding, with flap and tie. First (blank) leaf damaged, some damp-stains.

Billard, Michael

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

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

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Medicine, Traditional

Images from the collections

Images about Medicine, Traditional

Works from the collections

Mogliettis, Giuseppe de

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.

Medicine, Traditional

Images from the collections

Images about Medicine, Traditional

Works from the collections

Mogliettis, Giuseppe de

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.

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