A dentist demonstrating the adaptability of false teeth to an apprehensive patient by taking out his own. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1877.

Bears dialogue: 'Customer (nervously). "Ah! They must be very irksome at first." Dentist (exhultantly). "Not a bit of it , sir! Look here, sir!" (Dexterously catching his entire set.) "Here's my uppers, and here's my unders!"'

Sign on wall reads: "Fang!! Painless dentistry - moderate charge"

[London], 1877.

1 print : wood engraving ; border 13.4 x 10.4 cm

Plain to demonstration. CK

Wellcome Collection 13818i