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A dental surgeon standing on the arm of a chair and pressing his foot against a man's chest to enable him to extract a tooth from his mouth. Chromolithograph, 18--.

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A dental surgeon standing on the arm of a chair and pressing his foot against a man's chest to enable him to extract a tooth from his mouth. Chromolithograph, 18--.