Animal Materia medica.

Materia medica from a Chinese apothecary's shop: heads and beaks of birds, hoofs and legs of other animals and bears' feet in lines on the ground. Photograph.

A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving after D. Teniers the younger.

A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.

MS Tibetan 133

Tibetan plant manuscript

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