Operation (usually by a dentist or oral surgeon) to remove a tooth

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Transplanting of teeth.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an agonized patient. Lithograph by A. Bayot.

An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.

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

A troupe of travelling performers including a toothdrawer. Oil painting, 16--, after Theodor Rombouts.

Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.

Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.

A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient, in a pharmacy. Pen drawing.

Dental extraction: two men hold a man's head still and mouth open to demonstrate out-dated dental extraction techniques. Photograph, ca. 1921.

A country blacksmith in his forge extracting a tooth from a woman who is being restrained and taunted by her family. Coloured mezzotint.

A tooth-drawer using pincers to extract a tooth from an old woman, her husband agonizingly observes the situation. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.

Apparatus for arresting hemorrhage after the extraction of teeth / by Dr Roberts.

A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.

Des accidens de l'extraction des dents / par J. R. Duval.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated grimacing patient, in the open air. Mezzotint.

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Tooth Extraction

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Images referencing Tooth Extraction

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Apparatus for arresting hemorrhage after the extraction of teeth / by Dr Roberts.

A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.

Des accidens de l'extraction des dents / par J. R. Duval.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated grimacing patient, in the open air. Mezzotint.

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

Tooth Extraction

Images from the collections

Images referencing Tooth Extraction

Works from the collections

Apparatus for arresting hemorrhage after the extraction of teeth / by Dr Roberts.

A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.

Des accidens de l'extraction des dents / par J. R. Duval.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated grimacing patient, in the open air. Mezzotint.

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

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