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  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The dance of death: the healer. Etching by R. Dagley, 182-.
  • Anthyllis vulneraria L. Fabaceae. Kidney vetch, woundwort. 'vulneraria' means 'wound healer'
  • Ten people with leprosy (with warning clappers) approach Christ the healer. Etching.
  • "Maistre Robert", a blind healer healing by laying-on of hands. Oil painting.
  • A man's body receiving the ministrations of a healer. Drawing attributed to Pieter de Jode I.
  • Gardenia jasminoides J.Ellis Rubiaceae. Cape jasmine - as erroneously believed to have come from South Africa. Distribution: China. Named for Dr Alexander Garden FRS (1730-1791) Scottish-born physician and naturalist who lived in Charles Town, South Carolina, and corresponded with Linnaeus and many of the botanists of his era. The fruits are used in China both as a source of a yellow dye, and for various unsubstantiated medicinal uses. Other species of Gardenia are found in tropical Africa and the roots and leaves have all manner of putative uses. Gardenia tenuifolia is used as an aphrodisiac, for rickets, diarrhoea, leprosy, gall bladder problems, toothache, liver complaints, diabetes, hypertension, malaria and abdominal complaints. It causes violent vomiting and diarrhoea. It, and other species, are used to poison arrows and to poison fish. Some native, muthi medicine, healers regard Gardenia as a ‘last chance’ medicine, given to patients when all else fails – the patient either dies or recovers (Neuwinger, 1996). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Johann Gottfried Matthes (Mathes), a "natural healer", taking the pulse of a patient suffering from the dropsy. Etching, 1784.
  • A boy using crutches is looking at the instruments and dental prostheses of a travelling healer. Coloured photograph, 19--.
  • The workplace of a female healer (midwife and surgeon), with signboard, from outside. Reproduction of wood engraving after H. Daumier, 1841.
  • Magno Heal.
  • Magno Heal.
  • A Persian healer is administering nasal medication to a man lying on the floor; three men in the background. Painting, ca. 1900.
  • Christ as apothecary; suggesting the idea of Christ as the universal healer. Reproduction of a photograph of an oil painting after J. Marie Appeli, 1731.
  • A travelling healer demonstrating the extraction of a tooth from the mouth of a woman patient, before a crowd of onlookers. Etching attributed to Cornelis de Wael.
  • Christ heals a lame man. Engraving.
  • Christ heals the dumb and blind demoniac. Etching.
  • Christ heals a dumb, mentally ill child. Woodcut.
  • Annual report of the Medical Officer of Heal
  • Annual report of the medical officer of heal
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick