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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.

Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.

A dentist scaring a patient by telling how painful the drill he is going to use is. Reproduction of a drawing after A. Yeoman, 1940.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated grimacing patient, in the open air. Mezzotint.

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Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.

A dentist scaring a patient by telling how painful the drill he is going to use is. Reproduction of a drawing after A. Yeoman, 1940.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated grimacing patient, in the open air. Mezzotint.

A dentist looking in horror at the size of the tooth he has just extracted from his grimacing patient. Coloured aquatint.