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  • Aeson is rejuvenated by having his blood replaced by magic juices in a boiling vat; representing the process of self-destruction in order to attain the elixir of life. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs after Salomon Trismosin.
  • Soul catcher, bone magic Soul Case. Eskimo. Used by the Shaman to retrieve a lost soul, or to contain the soul of a departed relative. Engraved in conventional design. Hollow bone, covered at one end with wooden plug.
  • A lecturer (William Kitchiner?) about to address a lecture on optics with the aid of candles, a telescope and magic lantern to a seated audience, he is interrupted by a Kentish hop merchant. Coloured etching, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Short-title catalogue : of works on psychical research, spiritualism, magic, psychology, legerdemain and other methods of deception, charlatanism, witchcraft, and technical works for the scientific investigation of alleged abnormal phenomena, from circa 1450 A.D. to 1929 A.D / Compiled by Harry Price.
  • The fatal book opened : an authentic account of John Albert, a young gentleman in Hamburgh, who by the constant study of the works of Friar Bacon and Doctor Faustus, and other books of magic and astrology, had acquired an awful knowledge of cabalistics, necromancy and the black art.
  • In a world full of hate and homophobia I find solitude and love by being with my boyfriend : There is beauty in his finger tips, there is beauty in the lips I kiss. There is magic in his beautiful eyes, that justify the tears I cry / The Naz Project London ; photography by: Parminder Sekhon.
  • Del exorcismo mágico a la química moderna... una preocupación perenne: suprimir el dolor : Demerol / Winthrop.
  • Del exorcismo mágico a la química moderna... una preocupación perenne: suprimir el dolor : Demerol / Winthrop.
  • Persian magical chart, framed
  • The magical figure Phurbu. Chromolithograph.
  • The magical figure Dabchad, "Octagon". Chromolithograph.
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: magical cures
  • CongestióNasal ... Neo-Synephrine ... : Del exorcismo mágico a la química moderna... una preocupación perenne: suprimir el dolor : Demerol / Winthrop Products Inc.
  • CongestióNasal ... Neo-Synephrine ... : Del exorcismo mágico a la química moderna... una preocupación perenne: suprimir el dolor : Demerol / Winthrop Products Inc.
  • Aralen, un solido paso en la defensa contra el paludismo : Del exorcismo mágico a la química moderna... una preocupación perenne: suprimir el dolor : Demerol / Winthrop.
  • Aralen, un solido paso en la defensa contra el paludismo : Del exorcismo mágico a la química moderna... una preocupación perenne: suprimir el dolor : Demerol / Winthrop.
  • Two Australian aborigines performing a ceremony with a magical stick to make another person ill. Halftone.
  • Elisha's skeleton exerts a magical power when a dead soldier who has fallen into his grave is brought back to life. Etching by M. Tyroff, c. 1735.
  • Paracelsvs Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature. Of The Spirits of the Planets. [Of] Occult Philosophy. The Magical, Sympathetical, and Antipathetical Cure of Wounds and Diseases. The Mysteries of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack / Englished by R. Turner.
  • Paracelsvs Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature. Of The Spirits of the Planets. [Of] Occult Philosophy. The Magical, Sympathetical, and Antipathetical Cure of Wounds and Diseases. The Mysteries of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack / Englished by R. Turner.
  • Arithmologia sive de abditis numerorum mysterijs qua origo, antiquitas et fabrica numerorum exponitur; abditae eorundem proprietates demonstrantur; fontes superstitionum in amuletorum fabrica aperiuntur; denique post cabalistarum, Arabum, gnosticorum, aliorumque magicas impietates detectas, vera et licita numerorum mystica significatio ostenditur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • A woman and a man sit on a bed staring at a condom as if it floats magically mid-air; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by R. Warzecha, M. Jahreiss and D. Pusch.
  • Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench Asteraceae. Coneflower. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that the roots were chewed, or used as a tincture for coughs by the Choctaw. It was combined with Rhus typhina to treat venereal disease by the Delaware. Very little record of this being used by Native Americans, who used E. angustifolia very widely - Regarded as a panacea and magical herb. This and E. pallida were used to treat snakebite, spider bite, cancer, toothache, burns, sores, wounds, flu and colds. E. purpurea in modern times has been used as an ‘immunostimulant’, but is known to cause a fall in white cell count, and to be purely a placebo. Licensed for use as a Traditional Herbal Medicine, which does not require proof of efficacy, in the UK. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench Asteraceae. Coneflower. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that the roots were chewed, or used as a tincture for coughs by the Choctaw. Combined with Rhus typhina to treat venereal disease by the Delaware. Very little record of this being used by Native Americans, who used E. angustifolia very widely - Regarded as a panacea and magical herb. This and E. pallida were used to treat snakebite, spider bite, cancer, toothache, burns, sores, wounds, flu and colds. E. purpurea in modern times has been used as an ‘immunostimulant’, but is known to cause a fall in white cell count, and to be purely a placebo. Licensed for use as a Traditional Herbal Medicine, which does not require proof of efficacy, in the UK. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench Asteraceae. Coneflower. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that the roots were chewed, or used as a tincture for coughs by the Choctaw. It was combined with Rhus typhina to treat venereal disease by the Delaware. Very little record of this being used by Native Americans, who used E. angustifolia very widely - Regarded as a panacea and magical herb. This and E. pallida were used to treat snakebite, spider bite, cancer, toothache, burns, sores, wounds, flu and colds. E. purpurea in modern times has been used as an ‘immunostimulant’, but is known to cause a fall in white cell count, and to be purely a placebo. Licensed for use as a Traditional Herbal Medicine, which does not require proof of efficacy, in the UK. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench Asteraceae. Coneflower. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that the roots were chewed, or used as a tincture for coughs by the Choctaw. It was combined with Rhus typhina to treat venereal disease by the Delaware. Very little record of this being used by Native Americans, who used E. angustifolia very widely - Regarded as a panacea and magical herb. This and E. pallida were used to treat snakebite, spider bite, cancer, toothache, burns, sores, wounds, flu and colds. E. purpurea in modern times has been used as an ‘immunostimulant’, but is known to cause a fall in white cell count, and to be purely a placebo. Licensed for use as a Traditional Herbal Medicine, which does not require proof of efficacy, in the UK. Licensed as a Traditional Herbal Remedy in the UK (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Three red ribbons with black and red lettering. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • A theurgist performing rituals to exercise divine powers on earth. Coloured aquatint.
  • Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].
  • Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].