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  • L'experience et approbation Vlrich qe Hutem ... Touchant la medecine du boys dit guaiacum pour circonuenir et dechasser la maladie de Neaples / traduicte et interpretée par maistre Jehan Cheradame ... Nouvellement imprimée à Paris.
  • L'experience et approbation Vlrich qe Hutem ... Touchant la medecine du boys dit guaiacum pour circonuenir et dechasser la maladie de Neaples / traduicte et interpretée par maistre Jehan Cheradame ... Nouvellement imprimée à Paris.
  • See... smell... taste the new Sicilian : pizza base with taste : oregano, aromatic basil and garlic ... / Pizza da Milano.
  • See... smell... taste the new Sicilian : pizza base with taste : oregano, aromatic basil and garlic ... / Pizza da Milano.
  • See... smell... taste the new Sicilian : pizza base with taste : oregano, aromatic basil and garlic ... / Pizza da Milano.
  • See... smell... taste the new Sicilian : pizza base with taste : oregano, aromatic basil and garlic ... / Pizza da Milano.
  • A log cabin, which housed the first printing press at the head of Lake Superior. Process print after a lithograph of 1855.
  • A wedding in a north African village. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.
  • Men with spears walking past tree with figures sitting in the shade. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • Two hills and some trees by a lake over which stretches a high bridge. Watercolour.
  • Three angry Indians throwing stones and sticks at a medicine man. Coloured engraving.
  • An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
  • Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • Kapok or silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) growing by a village in Surinam. Coloured lithograph by P. Lauters, c. 1839, after P. J. Benoit.
  • An African medicine man operating on a man's hand. Coloured engraving.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
  • Szechwan province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Szechwan province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Szechwan province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa. Coloured wood engraving by H. Hall after H.M. Stanley, ca.1872.
  • A Binsa sorcerer or shaman, Congo. Halftone.
  • Annam, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Annam, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Annam, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867.
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Japanese man and child by a village fence. Gouache painting.