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Wooden statue, lion holding a pestle and mortar

Pharmacy-ware

Carved wooden ancestral figure of female

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Creamware plate, painted overglaze scene of a bapt

Medical Ceramic-ware

1771-1800

Wooden statue of squatting female figure

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Model of elephant carrying sacred alms bowl of Buddha

Asian Medicine

Painted and carved male ancestral figure with headdress

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1910

Nomoli figure, anthropomorphic and ithyphallic, ca

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1750

Ivory figure group depicting a blood-letting scene

Therapeutics

1601-1700

Pottery statue, representing a seated Quimbaya cul

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Cast iron plaque, circular, with head and shoulder

Smoking

1801-1870

Carved wooden effigy or Ibedji, typical Yoriba sta

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Marble relief marking a grave, Greece, 350-300 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

350 BCE-300 BCE

Pottery plaque moulded in one piece showing bust o

Smoking

1801-1870

Nomoli head, anthromorphic, carved from steatite b

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1800

Carved wooden staff tapering column surmounted by a human head probably representing Shapona (Shopono), amuletic concerned with smallpox, Yoruba people, Nigeria, 1860-1900

Carved wooden staff in form of human head

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1860-1900

Group of painted wooden figures, showing possibly

Asian Medicine

1880-1920

Small statue of a female exercising

Classical & Medieval Medicine

150-250 CE

Ivory ancestral statue carved from tip of a hippop

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Votive plaque, earthenware, tin glazed, from Churc

Medical Ceramic-ware

1600-1700

Ivory figure depicting a beggar with his arm in a

Therapeutics

1601-1700

Carved wooden figure of a witch, France, c. 1900-1934

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1934

Wooden statue, depicting a doctor holding a baby

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

Carved wooden plaque showing a man spearing a snak

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1930

Ivory statue of a pregnant female, Congo, African

Ivory statue of a pregnant female

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Carved wooden statue of female figure in standing position with figure in standing position with child clinging to the right side of her body, standing on square base, Fulani, Gambia, 1890-1930

Female figure with child

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Ivory ancestral figure carved from the tip of a hi

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1925

Anthropomorphic kneeling figure, carved from black

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1900

Miniature carved stone figure of pregnant woman, probably amuletic and possibly pendant, from Central Africa, 1880-1925

Miniature carved stone figure of pregnant woman

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Statue of male deity (?), possibly copy, earthenwa

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1500-1930

Anthropomorphic stone figure, nomoli, head and tor

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1700

Nomoli figure, anthropomorphic, carved, from steat

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1800

Carved wooden anthropomorphic head and shoulders w

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1830-1925

Galvanic brooch of black vulcanite, with cherub ho

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Female nomoli figure of carved steatite, probably

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1700

Earthenware votive plaque with maiolica glaze, dep

Medical Ceramic-ware

1760-1800

Tin glazed earthenware votive tablet showing 3 sol

Medical Ceramic-ware

1640-1700

Rectangular pottery plaque, one of a series depict

Medical Ceramic-ware

1760-1800

Contemporary scroll panorama of the galleries of the Great Exhibition of 1851, with charts of attendance figures, published by the Illustrated London News

Scroll panorama of the Great Exhibition 1851 galleries

Wellcome (general)

1852

Glass bottle with saint painted or side

Medical Glass-ware

Medicine man in form of highly stylised pot, partl

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1918

Carved wooden statue highly abstract treatment of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Votive plaque, earthenware, tin glazed, from Deruta, Italian, 1724

Votive earthenware plaque

Medical Ceramic-ware

1724

Terracotta cast of a right hand, male, Alcora ware

Medical Ceramic-ware

1727-1858

Votive plaque, Italian, 1625, maiolica, scene of m

Medical Ceramic-ware

1625

Wooden statue depicting a corpulent specialist, Ge

Clinical Diagnosis

Wooden statue depicting a doctor, German

Clinical Diagnosis

Ivory statue of a beggar, with crutch and wooden l

Orthopaedics

1701-1800

Wooden statue depicting a doctor, German (see note

Clinical Diagnosis

1921-1930

Wooden statue with concretion on tip of head, poss

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Votive plaque, earthenware, tin glazed, from Deruta, Italian, 1650-1750

Votive earthenware plaque

Medical Ceramic-ware

1650-1750