Woodcut of Ge Hong, a 4th-century Chinese physician, by Gan Bozong. (Photo: Wellcome Library)
Chinese woodcut of the anatomy of the large intestine, 1537. (Photo: Wellcome Library)
Lithography of 17th-century Italian anatomist Girolamo Fabrizio (a.k.a. Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente), by P.R. Vignéron. (Photo: Wellcome Library)
Line engraving, by Christian Franz Paullini. (Photo: Wellcome Library)
A man with cholera experimenting with remedies, by Robert Cruikshank, 1832. (Photo: Wellcome Library)
“The ascending douche,” an engraving from
The Water Cure Illustrated
, 1869. (Photo: Wellcome Library)
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