The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    end. A furgeon of fome eminence now appeared, who did not decline tooth-drawing, tho’ he certainly would nave been offended with the appellati¬ on of tooth-drawer, no lefs than his brethren, the members of that vene¬ rable body, would be with that of bar¬ ber, fince the late reparation between thofe long united companies, by which, if the furgeons have gained much, the barbers are fuppofed to have loft very little. This able and careful perfon (for fo I lincerely believe he is) after examin¬ ing the guilty tooth, declared, that it was fuch a rotten flieil, and fo placed at the very remoteft end of the upper jaw, where it was, in a manner, co¬ vered and fecured by a large, fine, firm tooth, that he defpaired of his power f drawing it.. ° He faid, indeed, more to my wife, and ufed more rhetoric to difiuade her from having it drawn, than is generally E 2 employed