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  • A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A fashionable lady being given an enema by a charming young man. Line engraving by J. Dieu de Saint-Jean.
  • 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.
  • A man bleeding a woman in her arm by using a bow and arrow. Etching.
  • Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.
  • An African medicine man operating on a man's hand. Coloured engraving.
  • A popular acrobatics performance. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • Fifteen vignettes relating to child care, domestic medicine, effects of alcohol and eating. Etching by G. Cruikshank after himself.
  • Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.
  • A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.
  • Sarawak: a Kayan woman dancing with the head of an enemy. Photograph.
  • A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks. Photograph.
  • Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.
  • An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • The fortunes of Peter Pickle, Esquire, whose fashionable lifestyle ends with a drink problem. Etching by R. Seymour, 1829.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A physician's wife and family in a carriage drawn by a camel ridden by a servant: suggesting the social importance of the physician, India (?). Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
  • Fifteen vignettes relating to child care, domestic medicine, effects of alcohol and eating. Etching by G. Cruikshank after himself.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • Sarawak: interior of a Kadayan tribal house, with a meal laid out. Photograph.
  • A Ntumbasee medicine man or shaman in full costume. Halftone.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • XVIIIme siècle : institutions, usages et costumes, France 1700-1789 / Paul Lacroix.