Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Shellfish

Tibetan cosmological amulet for protection against diseases. Gouache painting, Tibet.

Tibetan medicine and its divine origins. Distemper painting by Chundu, 1970.

Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Ink drawing.

A dying man, stoned on suspicion of spreading the plague. Colour lithograph after F. Jenewein, 1899.

Franco-Prussian War: two nurses treating a wounded German soldier on the battlefield. Wood engraving by W. Hollidge after Princess Louise.

An operator making an incision behind the ear of a seated patient, two assistants restraining the patient, and six other people in the room. Oil painting attributed to Joachim van den Heuvel, 163-.

The zodiac man. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.

Portrait; Samuel Pegge (1704-1796)

Operators letting blood from the arm of a woman in a room crowded with pharmacy jars. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.

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