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Teeth

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Images

  • The heads and upper palates with fangs of two snakes. Engraving, ca. 1796.
  • Greyhound dog skull
  • Medieval human mandible (lower jaw bone)
  • A postcard illustrating a variety of good luck charms. Chromolithograph.
  • Digestive system: twelve figures, including teeth, intestines and colon. Line engraving by Kirkwood & Son, 1813.
  • Doctor's signboard hung with human teeth
  • Greyhound dog skull
  • Stingray or skate (Batoidea) fossilised tooth
  • Muscles of the neck, tongue and jaws. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1745-1746.
  • A dentist giving John Bull a penny after extracting a tooth; representing the effects of income tax on Great Britain. Wood engraving, 1861.
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Works

  • view On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner.
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    On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner.

    Ashburner, John, 1793-1878 | Date: 1834
  • view Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth
    • Digital Images
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    Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth

    Macroscopic Solutions
    • Books

    Des Bartholomæus Eustachius Libellus de dentibus / Neudruck nach der 1. Aufl. hsg., in die deutsche Sprache übers. und erläutert, sowie einer Originalabhandlung "Bartholomæus Eustachius und seine Verdienste um die Zahnheilkunde," von Fritz Driak.

    Eustachi, Bartolomeo, -1574 | Date: 1951
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0000504: Radiograph of maxilla and mandible showing food packing

    | Date: 1929 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/5/76
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • view A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith.
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    A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith.

    Smith, Mayo G | Date: 1848
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