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  • Liber ad Almansorem / Contenta in hoc volumine. Liber Rasis ad Almansorem [and others].
  • Liber ad Almansorem / Contenta in hoc volumine. Liber Rasis ad Almansorem [and others].
  • Text on eye disorders from Al-safwa
  • Arabic text on diseases of the heart
  • Page 1 of Arabic manuscript on Alchemy by Razes
  • Page 3 of Arabic manuscript on Alchemy by Razes
  • Page 2 of Arabic manuscript on Alchemy by Razes
  • Arabic surgical instruments: nineteen figures. Coloured lithograph by F. Cazenave after J.J. Rifaud, ca. 1830.
  • Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.
  • Human skeleton with anatomical labels, Persian, 1893
  • Human body with anatomical terms, Persian, 1893
  • Human skeleton with anatomical labels, Persian, 1893
  • Human body with anatomical terms, Persian, 1893
  • Ophtalmology: Anatomy of the eye: 9th century.
  • Human body, arteries and viscera, Persian, 1893
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Arabic pharmacy from Damascus, 1959-1989. Photograph.
  • The zodiac man. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
  • The zodiac man. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
  • Page from an Arabic Text
  • Page from an Arabic Text
  • Page from an Arabic Text
  • Page from an Arabic Text
  • Page from an Arabic Text
  • MANUSCRIPTS: Oriental (Arabic) WMS Or 51, fo
  • Page from an Arabic Text
  • An astrologer. Watercolour by an Indian artist, ca. 1825.
  • MS Arabic 155.
  • Darfur, Sudan: two men collecting mud from a lake in a volcanic crater; the mud is sold for cooking and medicinal purposes. Photograph by W.H. Greany, 1939.
  • Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.