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  • Medicine man curing disease, Australia.
  • A woman standing in a window is caught in a spider's web. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A woman standing in a window is caught in a spider's web. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • The magical figure Phurbu. Chromolithograph.
  • Alaska: an Inuit medicine man wearing furs, a mask and oversized model hands, standing on the porch of a wooden building with a sick boy. Photograph, 19--.
  • John Browne, Adenochoiradelogia, 1684
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: amulets
  • Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Woodcut, 1493.
  • Amulet. Sudanese, 19th century.
  • Pefume bottle, glass, white.
  • A firing squad executing criminal soldiers. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A priest exorcist, with two men playing cymbals and drums. Gouache painting.
  • Saint Maternus. Engraving (?) and letterpress.
  • Gold touchpiece
  • A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, 1755, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, 1755, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, 1755, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Kali holding a demon's head. Watercolour.
  • The Dhyani Buddha Amitabha. Chromolithograph.
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • The Gloucester journal. Vol. LXXXVII. No. 4476, Monday, January 4, 1808 / printed and published by D. Walker, (successor to R. Raikes,) near the Cross, Westgate Street.
  • The Gloucester journal. Vol. LXXXVII. No. 4476, Monday, January 4, 1808 / printed and published by D. Walker, (successor to R. Raikes,) near the Cross, Westgate Street.
  • A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.
  • MS Thai 3, four leaves
  • Louis Pasteur. Line block by Bagaria, 1937.
  • Saint Christopher. Woodcut attributed to W.Y. Ottley.