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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from his patient. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, ca. 1832.

Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.

N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.

Modern dental materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics : including the practical application of drugs and remedies in the treatment of disease / by J.P. Buckley.

Introductory lecture on mechanical dentistry : written for delivery at the Sheffield Medical School at the opening of the session in the year 1864 / by Mr. Gillam Moseley, dental surgeon, 203, Bath Buildings, Sheffield.

Practical dental metallurgy / by Thomas Fletcher.

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N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.

N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.

Modern dental materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics : including the practical application of drugs and remedies in the treatment of disease / by J.P. Buckley.

Introductory lecture on mechanical dentistry : written for delivery at the Sheffield Medical School at the opening of the session in the year 1864 / by Mr. Gillam Moseley, dental surgeon, 203, Bath Buildings, Sheffield.

Practical dental metallurgy / by Thomas Fletcher.