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  • Text of colophon from Sanskrit Manuscript on medicine
  • Text of colophon from Sanskrit Manuscript on medicine
  • La médecine dans l'ancien Pérou / Raoul d'Harcourt.
  • La médecine dans l'ancien Pérou / Raoul d'Harcourt.
  • La médecine dans l'ancien Pérou / Raoul d'Harcourt.
  • La médecine dans l'ancien Pérou / Raoul d'Harcourt.
  • La médecine dans l'ancien Pérou / Raoul d'Harcourt.
  • A native American medicine man with elaborate body painting performing a dance. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • Native American children in a variety of poses suggesting blindness and hiding representing a warning that we isolate ourselves from HIV/AIDS; advertisement about AIDS education and clinical services for native Indian women and children by the Seattle Indian Health Board. Colour lithograph.
  • Secunderabad, India: the room in which Ronald Ross attributed the transmission of the malaria parasite to the anopheles mosquito. Photograph by Raja Deen Dayal & Sons, 19--.
  • The viscera with a foetus in utero. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • The arteries of the human body with a foetus in the womb. Watercolour by a Persian artist.
  • Cow's urine used as a medical treatment in India: a sick man is held over a cow's hindquarters, so that the cow's urine streams onto his face. Engraving by C. du Bosc after B. Picart, ca. 1730.
  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
  • The Sir Jamsetjee hospital, Grant medical college, and surrounding grounds, Bombay. Wood engraving after H. Hinton.
  • Manasā, Indian goddess of snakes and protection against snakebite. Watercolour.
  • A masseur massaging the arm of a man who is sitting on a low stool, with a leg immersed in a brass basin. Gouache painting, ca. 1825.
  • Raksha Kali, a form of the goddess Parvati worshipped for protection against epidemics and drought. Watercolour.
  • An ear-cleaner, attending to a man's ear. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1825.
  • Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi: women students in a laboratory. Photograph, 1921.
  • An Ayurvedic medical practitioner taking the pulse. Watercolour, ca. 1825.
  • The arteries of the human body with a foetus in the womb. Watercolour by a Persian artist.
  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
  • Hanuman, the monkey god, brings a Himalayan mountain with the herb sanjeevani to cure his brother Lakshman. Watercolour painting by an Indian painter.
  • The Sir Jamsetjee hospital, Grant medical college, and surrounding grounds, Bombay. Wood engraving after H. Hinton.
  • The viscera with a foetus in utero. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • Nerves of the human body. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi: women students in a laboratory. Photograph, 1921.
  • A surgeon, sitting on the floor, attends to a patient's leg, as he lies on a bed. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1825.
  • A Native American medicine man healing a sick child. Photograph, ca. 1920, after a painting by Valentine Walter Bromley, 1876.