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  • A drunken wet-nurse about to give the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) a drop of alcohol as a horrified Queen Victoria and Prince Albert burst in on the scene. Lithograph.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.
  • A Japanese doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Halftone after a photograph by Messrs. Kajima & Suwo.
  • A popular art and antique auction. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • A begging Brahman performing a ritual with his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
  • Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • People promenading in Belgravia. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • A busy day at the beach. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • XVIIIme siècle : institutions, usages et costumes, France 1700-1789 / Paul Lacroix.
  • XVIIIme siècle : institutions, usages et costumes, France 1700-1789 / Paul Lacroix.
  • The egg story : 6 / [British Egg Information Service].
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • Sarawak: a peace-making ceremony between two Kayan tribes. Photograph.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • XVIIIme siècle : institutions, usages et costumes, France 1700-1789 / Paul Lacroix.
  • A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • An Aboriginal medicine man or shaman from the Kakadu tribe sucking the illness from a patient. Process print after B. Spencer, 1914.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • A gentlemen's dinner looking out onto the river. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • The egg story : 6 / [British Egg Information Service].
  • A Binsa sorcerer or shaman, Congo. Halftone.