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World War One: a nurse watches over wounded men in a tent, behind her an operation is underway. Colour chalk drawing with pencil, c. 1914.
Date: 1914Reference: 24588i
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of figurines and fetishes. Photograph from a negative of 1913.
Reference: 28968i
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An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
Reference: 21358i
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Tibetan medical expedition in Ladakh, India: village doctor preparing medicines. Photograph by Tim Malyon, 1984.
Malyon, Tim.Date: 1984Reference: 29440i
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World War Two: a hospital camp in Thailand with dead men laid outside the huts. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Rawlings, c. 1946.
Rawlings, Leo, -1990.Date: 1946Reference: 24138i
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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].
Date: 1939Reference: 29108i
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A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
Reference: 21325i
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A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
Reference: 21378i
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A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.
Reference: 24101i
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World War Two: three medical inspections of prisoners of war in a dilapidated room. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.
Rawlings, Leo, -1990.Date: 1944Reference: 24139i
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A physician in traditional costume holding an ointment jar is supervising an apprentice who is mixing a concoction in a pot over a fire, Germany 1500. Heliotype.
Reference: 21565i
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World War Two: a man has his tooth extracted in a hospital camp hut, surrounded by others suffering various ailments. Coloured pen and ink drawing by L. Rawlings, 1946.
Rawlings, Leo, -1990.Date: 1946Reference: 24136i
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Doctors at work during a storm on a battlefield at Sinankeui, China. Wood engraving after W. Small.
Small, William, 1843-1929.Reference: 24418i
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World War Two: a surgical operation being performed under primitive conditions in a hospital camp. Coloured pen and ink drawing by L. Rawlings, 1946.
Rawlings, Leo, -1990.Date: 1946Reference: 24135i
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ReOrientalisms.
Burman, Chila KumariDate: 2004Reference: 625315i
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Two scholars in a cabinet: Paracelsus (?) and a traditional philosopher examining a flask. Oil painting.
Date: [between 1600 and 1699?]Reference: 45124i
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Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi, wearing traditional costume, holding the 'Yin-yang' symbol. Watercolour, China, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 567563i
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A man standing, anterior view with brain and contents of thorax and abdomen exposed. Engraving by Giulio de' Musi, by 1552, first published in 1714.
Date: 1714Reference: 26006i
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Li Chunfeng, the Chinese mathematician, astrologer and cosmologist, wearing traditional costume, holding the 'Eight Trigrams' symbol incorporating the 'Yin-yang' symbol. Watercolour, China, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 567571i
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Health promotion in Africa. Colour lithographs, ca. 1993-2010.
Date: [1993?-2010]Reference: 750470i
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A physician examining a urine flask. Oil painting by Gerard Thomas.
Thomas, Gérard, 1663-1720.Reference: 47322i
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A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 14 May 1799Reference: 10507i
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Interior with a physician examining a urine flask. Oil painting attributed to Gerard Thomas or Balthasar van den Bossche.
Thomas, Gérard, 1663-1720.Date: [1700?]Reference: 47325i
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Bartholomaeus Eustachius (1520-1574) performing an anatomical dissection before several observers, in an anatomy theatre decorated with an articulated skeleton. Engraving, 1722, after P. L. Ghezzi, 1714.
Ghezzi, Pier Leone, 1674-1755.Date: 1722Reference: 25346i
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A statue holding a cornucopia of wild flowers on a green ground, advertising Zeller's heart and nerve drops (medicine). Colour lithograph, 1959.
Date: [1959]Reference: 659495i

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World War One: a nurse watches over wounded men in a tent, behind her an operation is underway. Colour chalk drawing with pencil, c. 1914.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of figurines and fetishes. Photograph from a negative of 1913.

An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.

Tibetan medical expedition in Ladakh, India: village doctor preparing medicines. Photograph by Tim Malyon, 1984.

World War Two: a hospital camp in Thailand with dead men laid outside the huts. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Rawlings, c. 1946.

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 Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.

A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.

A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.

World War Two: three medical inspections of prisoners of war in a dilapidated room. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

A physician in traditional costume holding an ointment jar is supervising an apprentice who is mixing a concoction in a pot over a fire, Germany 1500. Heliotype.

World War Two: a man has his tooth extracted in a hospital camp hut, surrounded by others suffering various ailments. Coloured pen and ink drawing by L. Rawlings, 1946.

Doctors at work during a storm on a battlefield at Sinankeui, China. Wood engraving after W. Small.

World War Two: a surgical operation being performed under primitive conditions in a hospital camp. Coloured pen and ink drawing by L. Rawlings, 1946.

ReOrientalisms.

Two scholars in a cabinet: Paracelsus (?) and a traditional philosopher examining a flask. Oil painting.

Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi, wearing traditional costume, holding the 'Yin-yang' symbol. Watercolour, China, 18--.

A man standing, anterior view with brain and contents of thorax and abdomen exposed. Engraving by Giulio de' Musi, by 1552, first published in 1714.

Li Chunfeng, the Chinese mathematician, astrologer and cosmologist, wearing traditional costume, holding the 'Eight Trigrams' symbol incorporating the 'Yin-yang' symbol. Watercolour, China, 18--.

Health promotion in Africa. Colour lithographs, ca. 1993-2010.

A physician examining a urine flask. Oil painting by Gerard Thomas.

A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

Interior with a physician examining a urine flask. Oil painting attributed to Gerard Thomas or Balthasar van den Bossche.

Bartholomaeus Eustachius (1520-1574) performing an anatomical dissection before several observers, in an anatomy theatre decorated with an articulated skeleton. Engraving, 1722, after P. L. Ghezzi, 1714.

A statue holding a cornucopia of wild flowers on a green ground, advertising Zeller's heart and nerve drops (medicine). Colour lithograph, 1959.