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Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.
Hall-Edwards, J., active 1900.Date: 1900Reference: 23534i
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World War One: a lone man digs in a dilapidated graveyard. Colour chalk drawing with pencil, c. 1914.
Date: 1914Reference: 24589i
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A wedding in a north African village. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel), 1862-1940.Date: 1920Reference: 37693i
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Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: [1718]Reference: 20300i
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Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.
Cribb, Stephen, 1875-1963.Date: 24 March 1900Reference: 23741i
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
Reference: 28791i
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World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.
Rawlings, Leo, -1990.Date: 1944Reference: 24141i
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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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Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa, 1872. Coloured wood engraving by G. Durand after H.M. Stanley.
Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904.Reference: 545307i
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An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.
Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel), 1862-1940.Date: 1920Reference: 37674i
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A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
Reference: 21329i
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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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Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa. Coloured wood engraving by H. Hall after H.M. Stanley, ca.1872.
Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904.Date: 1872Reference: 545238i
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An African medicine man operating on a man's hand. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 21375i
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Boer War: a temporary hospital hut at Netley with four nurses at the door. Halftone, c. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 23745i
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A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
Buchta, Richard.Reference: 21388i
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A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
Buchta, Richard.Reference: 21321i
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Two Japanese peasants on a village path, the man carries a scythe and the woman has a baby on her back. Gouache painting.
Reference: 23642i
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
Reference: 28786i
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An African shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.
Reference: 22171i
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Kapok or silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) growing by a village in Surinam. Coloured lithograph by P. Lauters, c. 1839, after P. J. Benoit.
Benoit, P. J. (Pierre Jacques), 1782-1854.Date: [1839]Reference: 21020i
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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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Mountain seen across the White Nile. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel), 1862-1940.Date: 1920Reference: 37638i
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A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
Hardy, Norman H.Reference: 21296i
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Huts at Sennar, on the Blue Nile. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel), 1862-1940.Date: 1920Reference: 37668i

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Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.

World War One: a lone man digs in a dilapidated graveyard. Colour chalk drawing with pencil, c. 1914.

A wedding in a north African village. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.

Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.

Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.

World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

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

Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa, 1872. Coloured wood engraving by G. Durand after H.M. Stanley.

An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.

A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.

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.

Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa. Coloured wood engraving by H. Hall after H.M. Stanley, ca.1872.

An African medicine man operating on a man's hand. Coloured engraving.

Boer War: a temporary hospital hut at Netley with four nurses at the door. Halftone, c. 1900.

A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.

A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.

Two Japanese peasants on a village path, the man carries a scythe and the woman has a baby on her back. Gouache painting.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.

An African shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.

Kapok or silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) growing by a village in Surinam. Coloured lithograph by P. Lauters, c. 1839, after P. J. Benoit.

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

Mountain seen across the White Nile. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.

A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.

Huts at Sennar, on the Blue Nile. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.