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  • Patient suffering under conventional medicine compared with health via Morisonian alternative medicine; represented by trees, one bloated and dying under the varied administration of conventional doctors and the other drained of impurities and healthy. Coloured lithograph.
  • A selection of alternative medicines
  • A selection of alternative medicines
  • A selection of alternative medicines
  • James Morison promoting his alternative medicines; satirised by five vignettes of a fox among geese. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
  • James Morison promoting his alternative medicines; satirised by five vignettes of a fox among geese. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
  • A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.
  • A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.
  • Feverfew pollen
  • The first edition of Steward's healing art, corrected and improved by the original hand : to which he has added all his late improvements and new discoveries, both in physick and surgery, from the year 1812 to the year 1826 ... : to which he has added, A concise herbal ... / by William Steward.
  • Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) stem, SEM
  • A misunderstanding between a sick visitor and a native of a village in Scotland. Reproduction of a drawing after G. Belcher, 1912.
  • Achillea millefolium (Yarrow); wound healing, antispasmodic
  • John Dee's crystal, used for clairvoyance & healing, 17th C
  • A practictioner of Mesmerism using Animal Magnetism
  • "Maistre Robert", a blind healer healing by laying-on of hands. Oil painting.
  • A mesmerist using animal magnetism on a woman who responds with convulsions. Wood engraving, 1845.
  • A mesmerist using animal magnetism on a seated female patient. Wood engraving, ca. 1845.
  • A mesmerist using animal magnetism on a seated female patient. Wood engraving, ca. 1845.
  • A mesmerist using animal magnetism on a woman who responds with convulsions. Wood engraving, 1845.
  • Two doctors fight over which method to use on a patient; dramatising the conflict between allopathy and homoeopathy. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A woman caked in thermal mud at Abano Terme health spa. Photomechanical reproduction.
  • A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.
  • A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.
  • A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.
  • A therapist overseeing a man caked in thermal mud at Abano Terme health spa. Photomechanical reproduction.
  • Ginkgo berry
  • A man with his two children consulting a herb doctor and negotiating a prescription. Wood engraving.
  • Oleander (Nerium oleander) leaf, LM
  • Two doctors fight over which method to use on a patient; dramatising the conflict between allopathy and homoeopathy. Coloured wood engraving.