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  • People relaxing in a drawing-room after dinner. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.
  • A begging Brahman carrying some rice accompanied by his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • XVIIIme siècle : institutions, usages et costumes, France 1700-1789 / Paul Lacroix.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • A medicine man or shaman in Africa. Process print, 1910.
  • Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • A child with plugs in holes in his earlobes - to gradually increase the size, for ornamental purposes. Halftone after a photograph by J.W. Beattie.
  • 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.
  • The smoking room in a gentlemen's club. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • Two Malayan exorcists dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Halftone after a photograph by Wiele & Klein.
  • A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.
  • XVIIIme siècle : institutions, usages et costumes, France 1700-1789 / Paul Lacroix.
  • A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.
  • 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 wealthy hypochondriac having two physicians take his pulse at the same time. Line engraving by H. Bourne after A. Solomon.
  • XVIIIme siècle : institutions, usages et costumes, France 1700-1789 / Paul Lacroix.
  • Sarawak: Murut women at a head feast. Photograph.
  • A physician informing a young woman and her mother that she is pregnant, a servant is listening at the door. Engraving by T. Holloway.
  • A shaman with drum and in full costume. Process print.
  • A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.
  • A Gazaland medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after Dudley Kidd.
  • A native North American shaman or medicine man healing a patient. Chromolithograph by C. Schuessele after Captain Eastman.
  • Sarawak: a man placing offerings to the omen-birds on poles in the ground. Photograph.
  • An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
  • A physician and nurse attending a sick patient (?) and her servant. Watercolour.
  • A Dayak shaman or medicine man holding a flaming torch and some charms. Wood engraving.
  • Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.
  • A magnificent state banquet. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.