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  • A wizard and his accomplice performing incantations in a forest during a full moon. Etching by S. Palmer and A.H. Palmer.
  • A wizard and his accomplice performing incantations in a forest during a full moon. Etching by S. Palmer and A.H. Palmer.
  • A wizard and his accomplice performing incantations in a forest during a full moon. Etching by S. Palmer and A.H. Palmer.
  • Old trunk of a toddy palm tree (Caryota urens). Watercolour by H. Schlagintweit.
  • Scabies: sores on a hand, palm upwards. Photograph by S. H. Cannon, ca. 1920 (?).
  • A man's hands, palms down, fingers closed, showing misshapen fingers. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1862.
  • A man's hands, palms down, opened out and spread onto black cloth, showing misshapen fingers. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1862.
  • A Romany fortune-teller is reading the palm of a young woman suffering unrequited love; two other Romany women are leaning over a fence and children are sitting around a fire. Etching by P.W. Tomkins after H.W. Bunbury, 1791.
  • War in Egypt, Egypt: soldiers using the new eye protection and head gear. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer after W.H. Overend.
  • Benin: a healing ceremony during which patients prepare for their illness to be driven into the chickens they are holding, who will then be sacrificed to the god Legba. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.
  • Ancient anatomists in discussion around a cadaver. Engraving by G. Appelmans, 1674.
  • The martyrdom of Saint Agnes: she is stabbed, and an angel receives the martyr's palm from Christ for bestowal upon her. Engraving by G. Audran after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • Joâo Curvo Semmedo. Line engraving by M. Dossier, 1716.
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscesses - 'left hand touching abscess' etc
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured etching, ca. 1825.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured etching, ca. 1825.