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  • Mosquitoes: American soldiers in World War II can encourage them to breed them by leaving ruts in roads and unfilled earth holes, causing mosquito-borne diseases. Colour lithograph after A. Wells , 1944.
  • A triumphant candidate, borne aloft by his supporters, is about to topple from his chair due to an obstructing donkey, the disturbance of a fight and a frightened family of swine dashing underneath. Engraving by William Hogarth and François Antoine Aviline, 1758.
  • A certaine relation of the hog-faced gentlewoman called Mistris Tannakin Skinker ... borne at Wirkham ... on the river Rhyne. Who was bewitched in her mothers wombe in ... 1618 ... And can never recover her true shape, tell she be married.
  • The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri / practysyd & compyled by the moost experte mayster Jherome of Bruynswyke borne ine Straesborowe in Almayne ye whiche hath it fyrst proved and trewly founde by his awne dayly exerycsynge ... Here also shall ye fynde for to cure & hele all wounded membres, and other swellynges ... Item here shall ye fynde also for to make salves, plasters, powders, oyles, and drynkes for woundes.
  • The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri / practysyd & compyled by the moost experte mayster Jherome of Bruynswyke borne ine Straesborowe in Almayne ye whiche hath it fyrst proved and trewly founde by his awne dayly exerycsynge ... Here also shall ye fynde for to cure & hele all wounded membres, and other swellynges ... Item here shall ye fynde also for to make salves, plasters, powders, oyles, and drynkes for woundes.
  • The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri / practysyd & compyled by the moost experte mayster Jherome of Bruynswyke borne ine Straesborowe in Almayne ye whiche hath it fyrst proved and trewly founde by his awne dayly exerycsynge ... Here also shall ye fynde for to cure & hele all wounded membres, and other swellynges ... Item here shall ye fynde also for to make salves, plasters, powders, oyles, and drynkes for woundes.
  • The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri / practysyd & compyled by the moost experte mayster Jherome of Bruynswyke borne ine Straesborowe in Almayne ye whiche hath it fyrst proved and trewly founde by his awne dayly exerycsynge ... Here also shall ye fynde for to cure & hele all wounded membres, and other swellynges ... Item here shall ye fynde also for to make salves, plasters, powders, oyles, and drynkes for woundes.
  • Sarawak: four Punan men. Photograph.
  • A Dyak woman in a canoe is handing her child to a woman on the river bank; a tattooed man is holding various objects. Lithograph by H.A. Henrici and W.J. Gordon, ca. 1839.
  • Sarawak: a Kayan girl. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: Laki Bo, a Kayan tribal chief. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: Tama Kulieng, a chief of the Butang Kayan River tribe. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a Kajaman girl. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: members of a Kayan tribe from the Upper Rejang River region. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: members of a Kayan tribe from the Upper Rejang River region. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a wooden carving of Bali Atap, a Tutelary deity. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: four Kayan hunters in their camp. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a ornamented house constructed for the body of a dead tribal chief. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a Kayan man making fire by rubbing cane on wood. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: two tribal chiefs. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a Kayan woman carrying her child in a sling. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a Kayan woman dancing with the head of an enemy. Photograph.
  • Two men are carrying a palanquin between them along a road, others walk behind with yokes across their shoulders. Wood engraving.
  • Sarawak: a Kayan and Sea Dayak man, three Land Dayaks, and a Sea Dayak man and woman. Photographs.
  • Sarawak: decorated human skulls hanging in a Kayan house. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: Murut women at a head feast. Photograph.
  • Prevention of diarrhoeal diseases in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Sarawak: interior of a Kayan tribal house. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a Sea Dayak woman, two Kayan youths and three Kenyah women. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: a peace-making ceremony between two Kayan tribes. Photograph.