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  • Four men employed on extracting the guano deposits on the Chincha Islands, Peru. Wood engraving, ca. 1869.
  • Cun, guan, chi pulses, 15th century Chinese woodcut
  • A reptile (aboina guana). Etching by James Heath after G. Shaw.
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China: interior wall of the Buddhist archway at Juyong Guan. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China: interior wall of the Buddhist archway at Juyong Guan. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • The warrior Guan Yu plays at 'go' (board game) while the surgeon Hua T'o operates on his arm. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1853.
  • The warrior Guan Yu plays at 'go' (board game) while the surgeon Hua T'o operates on his arm. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1853.
  • The warrior Guan Yu plays at 'go' (board game) while the surgeon Hua T'o operates on his arm. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1853.
  • The warrior Guan Yu plays at 'go' (board game) while the surgeon Hua T'o operates on his arm. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1853.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Stork
  • Mid C20 Chinese medical illustration in trad. style: Smallpox
  • Pulse diagnosis techniques: Fuzhen and yangzhen
  • Chinese Qigong practice, from early C20 illustrated MS
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoyin exercises, Brocade of the Dragon, 6
  • Chinese woodcut: Medical instrument -- cupping vessel
  • C16 Chinese woodcut: Daoyin technique to treat sated feeling
  • Paediatric finger diagnosis: 'Three Passes', Chinese woodcut
  • Pulse diagnosis chart: Sectors and illnesses, right wrist
  • Pulse diagnosis chart: Sectors and illnesses, left wrist
  • Chinese woodcut: Correspondences between pulses and organs
  • Pulse chart showing correspondences with zang and fu viscera
  • Paediatric massage (tuina) chart, back of hand and arm
  • Wrist pulse diagnosis table for zang and fu viscera, Chinese
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • C15 Chinese medical primer: Correlations of the pulses
  • Anatomy of the bladder in ancient Chinese medicine, woodcut
  • Chinese woodcut: Alchemical refining furnace
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Excess wind etc.
  • Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Clay Ball Pulse