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  • A golf-obssessed dentist examining a patient's mouth and using golfing terminology to describe his problems. Reproduction of drawing after F. Buchanan.
  • A dentist being restrained in a chair, and terrified by a patient who is attempting to get his own back.Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1925.
  • A Liberal dentist discussing politics and the merits of Gladstone to his patient (a Tory) while the latter is prevented from speaking. Wood engraving by F.H., 1892.
  • A patient thanking his dentist for pulling a tooth out and asking can he go and finish reading a magazine in the waiting-room. Reproduction of a drawing after H. Batchelor, 1928.
  • A dentist and nurse tending a patient in a chair, a woman holding up a test tube filled with blood and three surgeons in green coats and face masks; a warning about the dangers of contaminated blood and transmission of the AIDS disease. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A dentist examining a patients teeth and informing him they are all in exceedingly bad condition. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1882.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An anxious patient checking with his dentist that that if he has gas anesthesia he will not be robbed of his money. Wood engraving after L. Raven-Hill, 1908.
  • A dentist asking a nervous patient would she like gas, she retorts no she doesn't want him poking around in the dark. Process print after T. Sarg.
  • A dentist asking a nervous patient would she like gas, she retorts no she doesn't want him poking around in the dark. Process print after T. Sarg.
  • A dentist reassures a terrified patient. Colour process print by C. Josef, c. 1930.
  • 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 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 tooth-drawer using pincers to extract a tooth from an old woman, her husband agonizingly observes the situation. Etching by J. Collier after himself, 1773.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient, in a pharmacy. Pen drawing.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a grimacing patient. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an agonized patient. Coloured chalk drawing.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from a seated female patient. Coloured etching.
  • A dentist looking in horror at the size of the tooth he has just extracted from his grimacing patient. Coloured aquatint.
  • An elderly dentist examining a female patient's mouth. Watercolour by M. Anderson.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a grimacing patient. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient in a pharmacy. Coloured stipple engraving.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a grimacing patient. Coloured lithograph by D. Alexander, 1824, after L.L. Boilly, 1823.
  • 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 travelling healer demonstrating the extraction of a tooth from the mouth of a woman patient, before a crowd of onlookers. Etching attributed to Cornelis de Wael.
  • 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 tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient, in a pharmacy. Pen drawing.
  • A man strapped into a dentist's chair with the dentist looking on. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1925.