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  • An anatomical cross-section of a head showing teeth, arteries and veins. Coloured engraving by A. Tardieu.
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Sancho Panza examining Don Quixote's mouth. Line engraving by C. Grignion after F. Hayman, 1755.
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • A tooth-drawer in his practice extracting a tooth from a seated patient who is surrounded by friends and family holding candles. Engraving by D.J. Pound after G. van Honthorst.
  • A short dentist (standing on a stool) extracting a tooth from an extremely tall lady who in her agony kicks over his work table. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1821, after A.E.
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • A puppy telling a wild boar that his tusks are a result of bad dentistry. Wood engraving by Anderson.
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • A nervous elderly lady in a dental surgery clutching her bag and looking suspiciously at the dentist. Pen drawing by S. Wood.
  • A school-children's dental clinic in Berlin: some children being treated and others waiting, all are girls. Photograph.
  • Le chirurgien dentiste, ov traite' des dents. Ou l'on enseigne les moyens de les entretenir propres & saines, de les embellir, d'en réparer la perte & de remedier à leurs maladies, à celles des geneives & aux accidens qui peuvent survenir aux autres parties voisines des dents. Avec des observations & des reflexions sur plusieurs cas singuliers. Ouvrage enrichi de quarante planches en taille douce / Par Pierre Fauchard.
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • A man commenting on the beauty of women at a ball, his friend (a dentist) implies that the perfection of their smiles is due to him. Wood engraving after C. Keene, c.1882.
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents. Ou l'on l'enseigne les moyens de les entretenir propres &c saines : de les embellir d'en réparer la perte &c de remédier à leurs maladies, à celles des gencives &c aux accidens qui peuvent survenir aux autres parties voisines des dents ... / par Pierre Fauchard.
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • A dentist (Woodrow Wilson) forcefully extracting a tooth from a patient (Kaiser Wilhelm II); representing America's successes in the First world war. Pen drawing by E.J. Sullivan, 1918.
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • A man using a dental probe on a girl's mouth. Oil painting after Gerrit Dou.
  • Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.