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Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear Otosporin drops.

M0000038: Palang (ampallang) beneath a photograph of it in use

A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.

A medical myth : Parsley for urinary disease.

The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: an exhibition on prehistoric medicine opened in 1951. Photograph.

An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.

A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after a photograph attributed to O.S.M. Temple.

The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: looking through the Primitive Medicine Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1939].

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

A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.

Aṉupava vaittiya tēva rakaciyam / Śrīmat Takṣiṇāmūrtti Cuvāmikaḷatu toṇṭarākiya Je. Cīttārām Pirasāt avarkaḷāl iyaṟṟappeṟṟatu ; Vaittiya Vitvaṉmaṇi Ci. Kaṇṇucāmippiḷḷai avarkaḷiṉ kumārarākiya Dr. K. Rātākiruṣṇaṉ avarkaḷāl tiruttiyum, viḷakkiyum, putuppikkappaṭṭatu.

M0012766: Section V A of the 'Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth' exhibition

Aṉupava vaittiya rattiṉam : nāṉkāvatu pākam Patārtta kuṇa pōtiṉi / nūlāciriyar Pikṣu.

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A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.

The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: an exhibition on prehistoric medicine opened in 1951. Photograph.

M0012766: Section V A of the 'Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth' exhibition

Aṉupava vaittiya rattiṉam : nāṉkāvatu pākam Patārtta kuṇa pōtiṉi / nūlāciriyar Pikṣu.