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A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.

Head and shoulders of a hideous old woman wearing an escoffin over a wimple. Colour stipple engraving by B. Pastorini, 1806, after L. da Vinci.

A character in the play "The widdow Ranter": Semernia, a Native American queen, with two pageboys. Mezzotint by W. Vincent.

A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.

War in Egypt, Egypt: soldiers using the new eye protection and head gear. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer after W.H. Overend.

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

A woman (possibly intended to be African) with pouting lips in elaborate head gear. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776 (?), after himself.

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

A physiognomist whose body is entirely made up of faces, sitting at a table diagnosing people's physiognomic characteristics with the help of a book. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley after G. Spratt, 1831.

A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.

Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a hypochondriac feigning illness in front of Béline, his wife and Dr. Purgon, his physician, in a scene from Molière's play. Etching by G. Schouten after J.B. Molière.

Specification of Robert Jackson : protective coverings to be used in cutaneous diseases.

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A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.

Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a hypochondriac feigning illness in front of Béline, his wife and Dr. Purgon, his physician, in a scene from Molière's play. Etching by G. Schouten after J.B. Molière.

Specification of Robert Jackson : protective coverings to be used in cutaneous diseases.

War in Egypt, Egypt: soldiers using the new eye protection and head gear. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer after W.H. Overend.

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