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  • Tibetan medicine and its divine origins. Distemper painting by Chundu, 1970.
  • Saint Apollonia, Saint Agatha and Saint Lucy. Oil painting by a Spanish (?) painter, 16th (?) century.
  • Indian laundry couple with the man ironing clothes. Gouache drawing.
  • A group of puff balls (Lycoperdon perlatum) and bracket fungi (Polyporus species). Watercolour.
  • Three leafy plant stems. Watercolour.
  • Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
  • Two Indian men: (left) seated, cutting green produce to shape, and (right) carrying a red bag and two bottles of fluid (ink? dye?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A rishi (hindu teacher with mystical knowledge) with five heads and four arms, holding prayer beads in three hands and a manuscript in the fourth. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Chinese men harvesting. Gouache.
  • Two Sacred Hearts in a landscape, united by two doves, separated by an hour glass. Watercolour.
  • Page 121: Sita being lured by a disguised Ravana, while Rama and Laksmana hunt in the forest. Watercolour drawing.
  • The last moments of W.A. Mozart. Oil painting by or after H.N. O'Neil.
  • A small mosque under a canopy being attended to by a man holding a fly whisk. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A Fakir man and wife of south India. Gouache painting.
  • A Japanese woman seated. Watercolour, 18--.
  • The Virgin and Child. Tempera painting.
  • Cap-Haitien, Haiti: the surgery of HMS Bulldog. Watercolour by E.L. Moss, 1865.
  • Bloodletting points and moxa points on the human body. Gouache painting, Tibet.
  • A fungus (Agaricus gloiocephalus): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1899.
  • A musician playing the tampura (an Indian stringed instrument). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Burma: courtiers playing polo. Gouache painting.
  • Japanese maple (Acer palmatum): branch with leaves. Watercolour.
  • A plant, possibly a melon (Cucumis melo): flowering and fruiting stem with segments of the fruit. Watercolour.
  • A Chinese man spinning plates on his index fingers. Watercolour.
  • A flagellation (above) and an unidentified scene (below). Tempera painting by a Spanish painter, 14th century.
  • Festival of Muḥarram: a procession of musicians, people carrying pennants and replicas of the martyrs' tombs. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A street carnival in Bogotá, with a battle between personifications of medicine and disease. Watercolour by F.-D. Roulin, 1822/1828.
  • The head of a man composed of writhing nude figures. Oil painting by F. Balbi.
  • Female genitalia held open by two fingers to show an area of diseased tissue. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1857.
  • Saint Sebastian. Gouache on glass.