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Concept

Dentist and patient

Images

  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an agonized patient. Lithograph by A. Bayot.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A dentist looking in horror at the size of the tooth he has just extracted from his grimacing patient. Coloured aquatint.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient, in a pharmacy. Pen drawing.
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Catalogue

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    Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

    Bristow, Edmund, 1787-1876. | Date: 1 February 1828 | Reference: 16677i
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    A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.

    Lindau, Dietrich Wilhelm, 1799-1862. | Date: [1834?] | Reference: 659102i
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    A dentist scaring a patient by telling how painful the drill he is going to use is. Reproduction of a drawing after A. Yeoman, 1940.

    Anton, 1912-1970. | Date: 1940 | Reference: 15535i
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    A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated grimacing patient, in the open air. Mezzotint.

    | Reference: 16441i
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    A dentist looking in horror at the size of the tooth he has just extracted from his grimacing patient. Coloured aquatint.

    | Reference: 16652i
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