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Wooden statue of squatting female figure

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

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

Painted and carved male ancestral figure with headdress

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1910

Model of elephant carrying sacred alms bowl of Buddha

Asian Medicine

Wooden statue, depicting a surgeon, German

Surgery

Photograph, painting of a renaissance merchant

Wellcome (general)

1950-1965

Copy of male figure from lower torso downwards, pl

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1930-1937

Nomoli figure, anthropomorphic and ithyphallic, ca

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1750

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

Ivory figure group depicting a blood-letting scene

Therapeutics

1601-1700

Medicine man in form of highly stylised pot, partl

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1918

Bronze cast of a right hand, belonging to Dr Willi

Orthopaedics

1922

Carved wooden ancestral figure, tall, slim upright

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Cast iron plaque, circular, with head and shoulder

Smoking

1801-1870

Votive plaque, earthenware, tin glazed, from Churc

Medical Ceramic-ware

1600-1700

Galvanic brooch of black vulcanite, with cherub ho

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

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

Medical Ceramic-ware

1625

Anthropomorphic kneeling figure, carved from black

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1900

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

350 BCE-300 BCE

Vernacular Ntutu Agwu group effigy, carved wood, m

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1930

Carved wooden statue, male in standing position, i

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1701-1850

Carved wooden statue of a male in standing positio

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1701-1850

Pottery statue, representing a seated Quimbaya cul

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Buddhist statue of Dharmapala

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Copy of Aurionacian Venus, plaster, original from

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1931-1937

Carved wooden figure of female carrying young chil

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Carved wooden statue of a female in standing posit

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Late 19th or early 20th century French bronze stat

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1930

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1934

Statue of goddess Kwannain

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Creamware dish depicting a sick woman

Medical Ceramic-ware

Ivory ancestral figure carved from the tip of a hi

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1925

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

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

Votive earthenware plaque

Medical Ceramic-ware

1724

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1500-1930

Nomoli figure, anthropomorphic, carved, from steat

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1800

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

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

Wooden statue depicting a doctor, German (see note

Clinical Diagnosis

1921-1930

Earthenware votive plaque with maiolica glaze, dep

Medical Ceramic-ware

1760-1800

Rectangular pottery plaque, one of a series depict

Medical Ceramic-ware

1760-1800

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

Glass bottle with saint painted or side

Medical Glass-ware

Carved wooden statue highly abstract treatment of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Ivory statue of a pregnant female, Congo, African

Ivory statue of a pregnant female

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Carved wooden plaque showing a man spearing a snak

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1930