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  • Rosie Ground (Cut nose), a Blackfeet Indian. Pastel by W. Langdon Kihn, 1926.
  • Two Hindu ascetics or holy men, one performing self-torture. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man performing self-torture, accompanied by a woman. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: with a rod piercing his cheeks, and holding some ceremonial objects. Wood engraving, ca. 1890 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: with two rods piercing his upper arms, and holding a trident in each hand. Coloured stipple engraving, 1828.
  • Varieties of torture in Asia. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1682.
  • Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.
  • Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.
  • A group of people hold a placard up announding 'Stop female circumcision' in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Family Planning Association of Kenya, May 1998.
  • Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.
  • Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.
  • A father with a stick pulls his daughter, a school girl towards a seated man: preventing female circumcision in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Family Planning Association of Kenya, ca. 2000.
  • Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.
  • A beaver hiding from hunters and biting off its own testicles to leave them as their catch. Etching by W.S. Howitt.
  • A man addresses an elderly woman as a girl approaches: dangers of circumcision to girls in Kenya. Colour lithograph by J. Ouma for Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation, 1998.
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: suspended by a hook and two spikes inserted through the muscles of his back. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Men and women in India performing various kinds of penance and mortification.. Etching by Giuseppe Filosi.
  • Two girls with their arms round each other in front of playing children: campaign against female circumcision in Kenya. Colour lithograph after E.K. Migwi for the Family Planning Association of Kenya, 1997.
  • Prisoners of the Tchaudor tribe having their eyes cut out with a knife in Khiva, Uzbekistan. Wood engraving by F.-J. Gauchard after É. Bayard, ca. 1868.
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: a thief with his thumbs chopped off. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: a thief with his thumbs chopped off. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A Muslim man accompanied by a boy: both with rods and chains piercing their bodies at the festival of Muharram in Shusha, Azerbaijan (?). Etching by R.R. after H. Koch, ca. 1878.
  • Bishop Frigidian (Fridian, Frediano) flanked by Saint Lucy, a donor, Saint Ursula and Saint James. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Francia.
  • The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel: x-ray apparatus with the male technician. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Face of a man whose nose had been reconstructed after a gun explosion
  • Soldiers dismembering, torturing and killing civilians outside town fortifications, probably during a siege. Etching by R. de Hooghe [?].
  • Cowasjee, a man who had his nose reconstructed with the aid of plastic surgery. Stipple engraving by W. Nutter, 1795, after J. Wales.
  • Cowasjee, a man who had his nose reconstructed with the aid of plastic surgery. Stipple engraving by W. Nutter, 1795, after J. Wales.
  • The trial of William Palmer for the Rugeley poisonings / [William Palmer].
  • Demonstratio uteri praegnantis mulieris cum foetu ad partum maturi tabulis ... ea methodo dispositis, ut hujus status gravidi amplam ob oculos ideam collecent ... / Ad exemplar Londinense translata a D.C.C. Schmidel. In aes incisa .. a J.M. Seligmanno ... Abbildung der Gebähr-Mutter aus einer schwangern Frau, etc.