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  • A drunken wet-nurse about to give the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) a drop of alcohol as a horrified Queen Victoria and Prince Albert burst in on the scene. Lithograph.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • Sarawak: decorated human skulls hanging in a Kayan house. Photograph.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.
  • Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.
  • 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.
  • A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.
  • A Japanese doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Halftone after a photograph by Messrs. Kajima & Suwo.
  • A popular art and antique auction. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • A begging Brahman performing a ritual with his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
  • Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • People promenading in Belgravia. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • A busy day at the beach. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • XVIIIme siècle : institutions, usages et costumes, France 1700-1789 / Paul Lacroix.
  • XVIIIme siècle : institutions, usages et costumes, France 1700-1789 / Paul Lacroix.
  • The egg story : 6 / [British Egg Information Service].
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • Sarawak: Sea Dayak men at a head feast. Photograph.
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • Sarawak: a peace-making ceremony between two Kayan tribes. Photograph.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • XVIIIme siècle : institutions, usages et costumes, France 1700-1789 / Paul Lacroix.