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Dental clinics

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  • A military dental surgery where soldiers have their teeth extracted extremely quickly, whilst others are waiting for their operations. Pen drawing by H. Bury.
  • A military dental surgery where soldiers have their teeth extracted extremely quickly, whilst others are waiting for their operations. Pen drawing by H. Bury.
  • Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.
  • Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.
  • A dentist telling off his black assistant for not extracting a tooth, the assistant retorts that instead of the tooth he got the patients's watch and pocket book. Process print after G.E. Studdy.
  • Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.
  • A nervous elderly lady in a dental surgery clutching her bag and looking suspiciously at the dentist. Pen drawing by S. Wood.
  • Forty five different scenes telling the tale of a man with toothache, his various attempts at trying to cure himself and the final recourse to the dentist. Wood engraving by G. Cruikshank after H. Mayhew.
  • A dentist telling off his black assistant for not extracting a tooth, the assistant retorts that instead of the tooth he got the patients's watch and pocket book. Process print after G.E. Studdy.
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    Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.

    Hall-Edwards, J., active 1900. | Date: 1900 | Reference: 23534i
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    Forty five different scenes telling the tale of a man with toothache, his various attempts at trying to cure himself and the final recourse to the dentist. Wood engraving by G. Cruikshank after H. Mayhew.

    Mayhew, Horace, 1816-1872. | Reference: 16690i
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    A group of school children and their teacher at the dentists for their six monthly checkup. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.

    Mayhew, Horace, 1816-1872. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 16700i
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    A military dental surgery where soldiers have their teeth extracted extremely quickly, whilst others are waiting for their operations. Pen drawing by H. Bury.

    Bury, Horace. | Reference: 16801i
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    A nervous elderly lady in a dental surgery clutching her bag and looking suspiciously at the dentist. Pen drawing by S. Wood.

    Wood, Starr, 1870-1944. | Reference: 16770i
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