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  • Three angry Indians throwing stones and sticks at a medicine man. Coloured engraving.
  • A native North American shaman or medicine man healing a patient. Chromolithograph by C. Schuessele after Captain Eastman.
  • An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: an exhibition on prehistoric medicine opened in 1951. Photograph.
  • Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.
  • A native American medicine man with elaborate body painting performing a dance. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A Mrua medicine man or shaman with his assistants, Central Africa. Coloured wood engraving after V.L. Cameron.
  • [Leaflet advertising Sunrider Foods from The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent, London and John Morley, Harley Street, London].
  • [Leaflet advertising Sunrider Foods from The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent, London and John Morley, Harley Street, London].
  • [Leaflet advertising Sunrider Foods from The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent, London and John Morley, Harley Street, London].
  • [Leaflet advertising Sunrider Foods from The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent, London and John Morley, Harley Street, London].
  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Watercolour.
  • To cure mumps the patient was led by an ass-halter three times round a pig-sty. A handbook of Irish folklore G. O'Suilleabhain : 'Pro-Actidil'.
  • A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.
  • To cure mumps the patient was led by an ass-halter three times round a pig-sty. A handbook of Irish folklore G. O'Suilleabhain : 'Pro-Actidil'.
  • When cough iteslf is the chief concern Actifed Compound Linctus quickly quietens cough.
  • When cough iteslf is the chief concern Actifed Compound Linctus quickly quietens cough.
  • When cough iteslf is the chief concern Actifed Compound Linctus quickly quietens cough.
  • When cough iteslf is the chief concern Actifed Compound Linctus quickly quietens cough.
  • A man bleeding a woman in her arm by using a bow and arrow. Etching.
  • A medicine man or shaman in Africa. Process print, 1910.
  • Mengo medical mission, Uganda: (left) two African scientists working in a laboratory; (right) a Ugandan medicine man and an African man pouring out medicine. Gouache painting, 1927.
  • A South African medicine man or shaman. Colour process print after a photograph by G.W. Wilson.
  • An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Halftone.
  • A Gazaland medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after Dudley Kidd.
  • An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • An African medicine man operating on a man's hand. Coloured engraving.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.