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  • Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear Otosporin drops.
  • 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 medical myth : Parsley for urinary disease.
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: an exhibition on prehistoric medicine opened in 1951. Photograph.
  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after a photograph attributed to O.S.M. Temple.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: looking through the Primitive Medicine Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1939].
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear Otosporin drops.
  • Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • An Aboriginal medicine man or shaman from the Kakadu tribe sucking the illness from a patient. Process print after B. Spencer, 1914.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • A Binsa sorcerer or shaman, Congo. Halftone.
  • A man bleeding a woman in her arm by using a bow and arrow. Etching.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of figurines and fetishes. Photograph from a negative of 1913.
  • An African medicine man operating on a man's hand. Coloured engraving.
  • A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • Wood masseur operating on another's head.
  • Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear Otosporin drops.
  • An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • Trépanation néolithique, trépanation pré-Colombienne, trépanation des Kabyles, trépantion traditionnelle / par Lucas-Champonnière.
  • Trépanation néolithique, trépanation pré-Colombienne, trépanation des Kabyles, trépantion traditionnelle / par Lucas-Champonnière.
  • A boy with deep scars on his forehead as a result of surgery, in an attempt to cure epilepsy and headaches, Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea). Halftone.
  • A Ntumbasee medicine man or shaman in full costume. Halftone.