The Kings medicines for the plague. Prescribed in the year, 1604 / by the whole Collodge [sic] of Physitians, both spiritual and temporal. Generally made use of, and approved in the years, 1625, and 1636. And now most fitting for this dangerous time of infection, to be used all England over.

Medicina diastatica or sympatheticall mumie: containing, many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick. By the construction, extraction, transplantation and application of microcosmical & spiritual mumie. Teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, etc / Abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus: by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... Translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst.

Antropologium de hominis dignitate, natura, et proprietatibus, de elementis, partibus, et membris humani corporis. De iuuamentis nocumentis, accidentibus, vitijs, remedijs, et physionomia ipsorum. De excreme[n]tis et exeu[n]tib[us] : de spiritu hu[m]ano eiusq[ue] natura p[ar]tib[us] et op[er]ib[us] de ani[m]a hu[m]ana et ipsius appendicijs / per Magnu[m] Hundt.

An altar to which a paralysed man and an insane man have been brought for a cure. Etching by J. Le Pautre, 16--.

The seeress of Prevorst being revelations concerning the inner-life of man, and the inter-diffusion of a world of spirits in the one we inhabit / Communicated by Justinus Kerner ... [Translated] From the German by Mrs. Crowe.

Martha Hatfield, who had a trance from which she gained divine inspiration. Line engraving, 1794.

A head divided into thirty seven compartments, each containing an image representing a phrenological faculty. Wood engraving, after O.S. Fowler, c. 1840.

Fathime's astral body leaving her as she dies while Euphrosyne sits and watches. Line engraving by S. Davenport after H. Corbould.

A Church of England rector seated at table as a servant brings a roasted pig on a dish. Aquatint after G.M. Woodward.

Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving.

Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Coloured engraving.

A lame man being doused in water from a holy spring to procure a miraculous cure, in Sarepta (?), Russia. Pen and ink drawing, 1903.

Filomena Varazzo, a woman whose eczema could not be cured by medicine, is cured by looking at a picture of the blessed Francesco Saverio Maria Bianchi. Process print.

Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving on yellow silk by P. Bohacz.

Saint Gregory the Great: thinking himself unworthy to be Pope, he retires to a cave and studies the scriptures, but churchmen come to persuade him to return to Rome. Engraving by P.P. Moles, 1769, after C. van Loo.

Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving on yellow silk.

Saint Francis de Paul (San Francesco da Paola) healing a young man with an ulcered leg. Etching by Giandomenico Tiepolo.

A monk, suffering a hallucination that he is being attacked by wolves, being freed from his delusions by Saint Anselm. Drawing by an artist in the circle of J.W. Baumgartner.

Christ heals a man possessed by demons. Woodcut, 16th century.

Maria-Rosa Casabona, struck by apoplexy, is revived by an address of the blessed Francesco Saverio Maria Bianchi. Process print.

Saint Francis de Paul (San Francesco da Paola) healing a man with an ulcered leg and a woman vexed by a malignant spirit. Oil painting.

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