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  • Physiognomic chart: disgnostic correlations of facial sectors
  • Pulse diagnosis chart: Sectors and illnesses, right wrist
  • Pulse diagnosis chart: Sectors and illnesses, left wrist
  • Survey of voluntary sector funding from health authorities 1996-97 / National AIDS Trust.
  • Hakīm Haki, philosopher of the Druze sect. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, ca. 1900.
  • Fakir belonging to a sect known for occasional nudity, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Members of the Jansenist sect having convulsions and spasms as a result of religious fanaticism. Engraving by B. Picart.
  • Members of the Jansenist sect having convulsions and spasms as a result of religious fanaticism. Engraving by B. Picart.
  • Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, London: a radial overhead crane for carrying heavy artillery pieces in different sectors of the factory. Lithograph by G. Clausen, 1917.
  • A wheel-chart (pie-chart), the seven sectors of which show seven different types of food which need to be combined in a balanced diet. Colour lithograph, 1943.
  • Two nurses and a row of pregnant women look at a pregnant teenage girl in an antenatal clinic: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Rhoda for Family Planning Private Sector, ca. 2000.
  • Nepal; travelling butcher in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpas buying yak meat from butcher, near Lukla (altitude 2827 metres). Meat is not generally eaten by Sherpas who are Buddhists, adhering to the oldest, unreformed sect of Tibetan Buddhism known as Kar-gyud-pa. Buddhists make up about 5.3% of Nepal's population whilst 89.5% are Hindu. The cultural heritage of the Sherpas, however, has always remained with Tibet.
  • A semi naked man with a shirt hanging off one shoulder and a condom beside him; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement from Guadalajara, Mexico. Colour lithograph, ca. 1994.
  • Ysbrandt van Diemerbroeck. Line engraving after R. de Hooghe.
  • A man surrounded by numerous pregnant women and children: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by N. Kimotho for The National Council for Population and Development, 1984.
  • A man carrying his large family on his back in their bare thatched house: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Sukoro for The National Council for Population and Development, ca. 2000.
  • Pulse diagnosis: Conditions associated with left wrist pulses
  • Sexual organs, male and female: ten figures of dissections. Line engraving by Lodge after F. Birnie, 1789.
  • Pulse diagnosis:Conditions associated with right wrist pulses
  • C20 Chinese medical illustration in trad. style: Hand massage
  • Physiognomy diagnosis chart, Chinese woodcut, 1817
  • Instructions on Tubal Occlusion or Ligation: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Calendar/rhythm contraceptive method: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • C20 Chinese medical illustration in trad. style: Hand massage
  • C20 Chinese medical illustration in trad. style: Hand massage
  • A young woman contemplating a skull. Woodcut by A. Andreani after A. Casolano, 1592.
  • A young woman contemplating a skull. Woodcut by A. Andreani after A. Casolano, 1592.
  • Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Par Al. de Humboldt. [Atlas pittoresque].
  • Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Par Al. de Humboldt. [Atlas pittoresque].
  • Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Par Al. de Humboldt. [Atlas pittoresque].