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  • 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.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.
  • Three native North American medicine men dressed in elaborate ritual masks and costumes. Wood engraving.
  • A machi, or medicine woman, Araucania, Chile.
  • M0000038: Palang (ampallang) beneath a photograph of it in use
  • Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear Otosporin drops.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • A medicine man or shaman in Africa. Process print, 1910.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: figurines in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph, 1913 (?).
  • Lacquered wood, masseurs operating on shoulders and back.
  • 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 shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.
  • Three angry Indians throwing stones and sticks at a medicine man. Coloured engraving.
  • Doctors at work during a storm on a battlefield at Sinankeui, China. Wood engraving after W. Small.
  • A medical myth : Parsley for urinary disease.
  • A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.
  • A maid puts a key down a man's shirt to stop his nosebleed. Lithograph, c. 1835-1841.
  • A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.
  • M0000038: Palang (ampallang) beneath a photograph of it in use
  • A Gazaland medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after Dudley Kidd.
  • A native North American shaman or medicine man healing a patient. Chromolithograph by C. Schuessele after Captain Eastman.
  • An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
  • A native American medicine man with elaborate body painting performing a dance. Wood engraving, 1873.