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  • A medicine man or shaman in Africa. Process print, 1910.
  • An African medicine man operating on a man's hand. Coloured engraving.
  • A Japanese doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Halftone after a photograph by Messrs. Kajima & Suwo.
  • An African shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A physician and nurse attending a sick patient (?) and her servant. Watercolour.
  • A Dayak shaman or medicine man holding a flaming torch and some charms. Wood engraving.
  • A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • A Ntumbasee medicine man or shaman in full costume. Halftone.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.
  • Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • Colombia: a cottage built of bamboo. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • The plain of Peladeros, Colombia, looking towards the Cordilleras. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Rio Claro, Colombia. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Bocanema, Colombia: a waterfall. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Colombia: a cottage built of bamboo. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Colombia: a covered passage providing a prospect of the Cordillera mountains across a ravine. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Mariquita, Colombia: a wooden bridge. Coloured lithograph by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Mérida city, Colombia. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Colombia: a shed on the banks of a lagoon of the River Cienega. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Pamplona city, Colombia. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.