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  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after a photograph attributed to O.S.M. Temple.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.
  • A Binsa sorcerer or shaman, Congo. Halftone.
  • In Ireland, sore throats used to be treated by applying salt herrings to the feet ... but today ... : the choice is Strepsils antiseptic lozenges for mouth and throat infections / Boots Pure Drug Company Limited.
  • Wherever gout strikes Zyloric protects.
  • Wherever gout strikes Zyloric protects.
  • Wherever gout strikes Zyloric protects.
  • Wherever gout strikes Zyloric protects.
  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of figurines and fetishes. Photograph from a negative of 1913.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: figurines in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph, 1913 (?).
  • A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.
  • A Dayak shaman or medicine man holding a flaming torch and some charms. Wood engraving.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • Pro-Actidil in hay fever and other allergies.
  • A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • Pro-Actidil in hay fever and other allergies.
  • Pro-Actidil in hay fever and other allergies.
  • Pro-Actidil in hay fever and other allergies.
  • A Ntumbasee medicine man or shaman in full costume. Halftone.
  • A medical myth : Parsley for urinary disease.
  • Zyloric prevents the formation of high uric acid levels in the body : apply a raw lean beef-steak to the gouty part ...