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Facial mask

Wellcome (general)

1501-1800

Wooden statue, depicting a surgeon, German

Surgery

Male figure of carved wood on rand base, figure ha

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Netsuke of head of Daruma - the founder of Zen Buddhism

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Rectangular netsuke with picture of copulating man and woman inside

Asian Medicine

Ivory male anatomical figure, Germany, 1601-1800

Anatomy & Pathology

1601-1800

Porcelain red pepper, hinged, containing sexual scene

Asian Medicine

Porcelain red pepper, hinged, containing male and

Asian Medicine

Netsuke in form of blind masseur

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Netsuke in form of man bolding fan

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Netsuke in form of demon seating on skull

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Netsuke in form of Shoki, the demon queller, depicted as T'ang Dynasty warrior

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Netsuke in form of standing man with large ear and genitals showing

Asian Medicine

Wooden ceremonial shield carved from the solid with incised decoration, representing a stylized version of the male human form. A symbol of ancestral spirits they ward off evil spirits, from Papuan gulf, Papua New Guinea, 19th century

Carved ceremonial shield in form of stylised male

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Pottery flask, with seated male forming neck of vessel

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Netsuke in form of reclining child

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Netsuke in form of Tanuki the badger

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Wooden statue depicting a psychiatrist, German

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

Carved ivory statue, in the form of a copulating man and woman

Asian Medicine

Finger ring, bronze, bezel ostensibly Hippocrates

Wellcome (general)

Porcelain melon, hinged, containing a male and fem

Asian Medicine

Netsuke in form of seated cross-legged man

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Netsuke in form of God Fukurokuju

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Figure in form of Gama Sennin

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Delicately carved wooden figure of barefooted man,

Surgery

1770-1900

Ivory plaque, depicting the "Good Samaritan" tendi

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Stylized carved wooden male figure, roughly hemisp

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Carved wooden statue presumably male but with no g

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1860-1910

Netsuke in form of sitting man with mask

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Ivory figure depicting a beggar with his arm in a

Therapeutics

1601-1700

Plaster model demonstrating massage treatment call

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1943

Netsuke in form of blind man

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Netsuke in form of oni

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Netsuke in form of Shoki "the demon queller"

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Wooden statue, depicting a doctor holding a baby

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

Carved wooden kareau figure, anthropomorphic, male and standing, painted, from Nicobar Islands, Bay of Bengal, 1880-1925

Carved wooden kareau figure, anthropomorphic, male

Asian Medicine

1880-1925

Wooden netsuke, in the form of Gama Sennin, bearded, holding a staff, clothed in robes and leaves, toad on his left shoulder, Japanese, 1701-1900

Netsuke in form of Gama Sennin

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Marble copy of a Greek bronze statue, showing youth extracting a thorn from his foot, original probably 5th to 3rd centuries BC, copy possibly 1800-1920

Marble copy of a Greek bronze statue, showing youth extracting thorn from foot

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1800-1920

Pottery figure, with black paint on face, wearing a piece of cloth not originally associated with the figure, from Chancay culture, Peruvian

Pottery figure, with black paint on face, wearing

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Amulet consisting of carved wooden cradle with male and female figure, with suspension holes, from New Caledonia, 1801-1900

Amulet consisting of carved wooden cradle with male and female figure

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Anthropomaphic, male ancestral figure, one of pair, wooden, painted red with decorated body and face, from Admiralty Islands, South Pacific Ocean, 1870-1900

Anthropomaphic, male ancestral figure, one of pair

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1900

Porcelain fruit, hinged, contains male and female copulating, Oriental

Porcelain fruit, hinged, contains male and female

Asian Medicine

Ceramic lotus root, hollow and containing two figures copulating and a bird, Oriental

Ceramic lotus root, hollow and containing two figu

Asian Medicine