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  • 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.
  • A dentist encounters a large, violent patient. Reproduction of a drawing by A. Wallis Mills, 1920.
  • 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.
  • A surgeon extracting a tooth from a patient, while the latter's concerned wife stands in the background. Mezzotint by Read after G. Dou.
  • A patient paying a dentist after having a tooth removed with gas. Reproduction of a drawing after L.P. Dowd, 1922.
  • The story of a man with toothache, his attempts at self help and the final resort visiting the dental surgeon: twenty-four vignettes. Coloured wood engraving by W. Busch, 1862.
  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal in order to be able to extract a tooth more easily. Etching by J. Collier after himself, 1773.
  • A street tooth-drawer on his stall extracting a tooth from a patient. Wood engraving after C. Fripp (?).
  • A man using a dental probe on a girl's mouth. Oil painting after Gerrit Dou.
  • A dentist asks an old patient how long his tooth has been hurting him, the patient replies twenty years. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Thomas, 1931.
  • A dentist extracting a tooth from a fashionable female patient who is surrounded by young men. Coloured etching, 1806.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a woman steals from his bag. Etching by J.J. van Vliet.
  • A German military dentist pulls a tooth from an agonised soldier. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1892.
  • A tooth-drawer using pincers to extract a tooth from an old woman, her husband agonizingly observes the situation. Etching by J. Collier after himself, 1773.
  • A tooth-drawer in his establishment feeling the tooth of a bemused female patient, his assistant holds the pincers in readiness for extraction. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1823.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is in such pain that he pulls the tooth-drawer's wig off. Coloured etching after J. Gillray (?).
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.
  • A rustic tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man. a woman looks on. Mezzotint by J. Dixon after J. Harris the elder, 1768.
  • A short dentist (standing on a stool) extracting a tooth from an extremely tall lady who in her agony kicks over his work table. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1821, after A.E.
  • A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Three scenes involving the end of a tooth extraction operation and the great relief of the patient. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient, in a pharmacy. Pen drawing.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint after J. Harris the elder.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a grimacing patient. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly.
  • A tooth-drawer dressed in military uniform extracting a tooth from a sailor who is being supported by another man. Coloured lithograph by G.L. (?).