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  • A rustic tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man. a woman looks on. Mezzotint by J. Dixon after J. Harris the elder, 1768.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is in such pain that he pulls the tooth-drawer's wig off. Coloured etching after J. Gillray (?).
  • A golf-obssessed dentist examining a patient's mouth and using golfing terminology to describe his problems. Reproduction of drawing after F. Buchanan.
  • Safe activities in which the AIDS virus is not transmitted including top left shaking hands to blood donation bottom right with subtitles to diagrams in French; advertisement by CRAM, [La Caisse Régionale d'assurance Maladie de Bourgogne Franche-Comté]. Colour lithograph.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an agonized patient. Coloured chalk drawing.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a woman steals from his bag. Watercolour after J.J. van Vliet.
  • Two scenes of a farrier extracting a tooth from a male patient and a blacksmith extracting a tooth from a female patient. Etching after J. Harris the elder.
  • Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.
  • 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 tooth-drawer holding up a tooth after extracting it from a patient, who is spitting blood out of the window. Engraving by W. French after G. Dou, 1672.
  • A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint after J. Harris the elder.
  • 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 tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing patient, who is being pick-pocketed by a woman. Line engraving after L. van Leyden, 1523.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is strapped to a chair in a dilapidated room, his worried wife looks on. Etching.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a man's tooth while his friend is watching and enjoying a glass of champagne. Coloured etching.
  • 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.
  • Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.
  • A reluctant girl sits down in the dentist's chair. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Thomas, 1920.
  • A dentist looking at a tooth of a very attractive female patient. Coloured lithograph.
  • A rural tooth-drawer in his surgery extracting a tooth from a patient. Lithograph by E. Pigal.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from a seated female patient. Coloured etching.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • 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 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 tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured pen drawing by A.G., 1821, after J. Gillray, 1796.
  • A tooth-drawer holding up a tooth after extracting it from a patient, who is spitting blood out of the window. Engraving by D.J. Pound after G. Dou, 1672.
  • 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.
  • A tooth-drawer holding up a tooth after extracting it from a patient, who is spitting blood out of the window. Coloured lithograph by J.A.(?). Pecht, 1836, after G. Dou, 1672.
  • A precocious child telling a dentist exactly what is wrong with her teeth. Process print after L. Baumer, 1936.