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  • Acute pathologies, postpartum illness, Chinese lithograph
  • Treatment of acute pathologies, prepartum illness, lithograph
  • Mask used by 'Eskimo' shaman in causation of illness.
  • Qigong exercise to treat illness due to sexual overindulgence
  • A male patient surrounded by his family discussing his illness with a physician. Engraving.
  • A male patient surrounded by his family discussing his illness with a physician. Engraving.
  • Malayan black magic (Ilmu Sihir) charm intended to curse its recipient with a fatal illness.
  • Two physicians discussing a patient: one boasts to the other that he has prescribed a remedy which will aggravate the patient's illness in order to fit the illness to the physician's specialty. Wood engraving by J.B. Partridge, 1896.
  • Two physicians discussing a patient: one boasts to the other that he has prescribed a remedy which will aggravate the patient's illness in order to fit the illness to the physician's specialty. Wood engraving by J.B. Partridge, 1896.
  • Dear Friend, if you were diagnosed with a life threatening illness, who would you tell? / Lyndall Stein.