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  • Nail schizophrene.
  • Nail schizophrene.
  • structure of nail
  • Nail, general structure, SEM
  • Nail effigies, Congo, West Africa.
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Borneo: a boy with a nail (palang) through his penis
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • A bent and rusty nail; advertising tetanus vaccination. Colour lithograph after B. Chadebec, 1987.
  • Witchcraft: a witch and a devil making a nail with which to make a boy lame. Woodcut, 1720.
  • Diseased tissue on the toe and nail of a woman (?), showing symptoms of syphilitic onychia. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, ca. 1870.
  • A cigarette compared with a nail being driven into a coffin; representing the lethal effect of smoking. Colour lithograph after K. Erol, 1972.
  • A prisoner sits in his cell and carves the Crucifixion in the wall with a nail. Engraving by F. Bacon after E.H. Wehnert.
  • Lantern slides; Commercialized, Electric medal. Ring made from horseshoe-nail, 3 hunchback, ring with skull, imitation 4-leaf clover under glass. Coll. Hl. 3827
  • Nepal; street of dentists, Kathmandu 1986. In 1982, there were 17 government-trained dental surgeons in Nepal, some of whom practised in this street. For those too fearful or who could not afford to visit one of these surgeries, a nearby shrine was dedicated to Vaisha Dev, the god of toothache. Surrounding the god was a plank of wood into which thousands of nails had been driven. Planting a nail was believed to get rid of toothache by pinning down all evil spirits and influences.
  • Rabbit health check, clipping nails
  • Tinea ungium (ringworm of the nails)
  • Broadsheet: John Hinge, Operator for Corns and Nails.
  • Hand of a boy with congenital absence of nails
  • Toes of a boy with congenital absence of nails
  • Four fingers with diseased nails designated as Tinea unguium. Watercolour, 1899.
  • Marks on the nails of the finger and thumb caused by seasickness
  • Two men, one cutting his finger-nails with a pair of scissors. Oil painting.
  • Two men, one cutting his finger-nails with a pair of scissors. Oil painting.
  • Bent nails protruding from the lid of an opened crate. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden.
  • Grisovin-FP : for low cost treatment of fungal infections of skin, hair and nails.
  • A nearly naked man chops wood and hammers nails into it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.