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  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal in order to be able to extract a tooth more easily. Etching by J. Collier after himself, 1773.
  • Three scenes involving the end of a tooth extraction operation and the great relief of the patient. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.
  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal causing him to pull away violently and extract a tooth. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.
  • Three scenes involving the end of a tooth extraction operation and the great relief of the patient. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.
  • Three scenes involving the end of a tooth extraction operation and the great relief of the patient. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.
  • Three scenes involving the end of a tooth extraction operation and the great relief of the patient. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.
  • A dentist demonstrating the adaptability of false teeth to an apprehensive patient by taking out his own. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1877.
  • Three scenes involving the end of a tooth extraction operation and the great relief of the patient. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.
  • Three scenes involving the end of a tooth extraction operation and the great relief of the patient. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.
  • A patient exclaiming to his dentist that the cost of having a tooth pulled is the same as his wages for an hour. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Prance, 1927.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an agonized patient. Lithograph by A. Bayot.
  • A dentist asks an old patient how long his tooth has been hurting him, the patient replies twenty years. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Thomas, 1931.
  • A dentist encounters a large, violent patient. Reproduction of a drawing by A. Wallis Mills, 1920.
  • 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 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 tooth-drawer dressed in military uniform extracting a tooth from a sailor who is being supported by another man. Coloured lithograph by G.L. (?).
  • 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 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 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.
  • An itinerant tooth-drawer performing an operation on a struggling male patient. Ink wash drawing after P.A. Wille, 1788.
  • 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 tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who virtually falls off his chair in pain, a servant hovers in the background. Etching.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient, in the open air. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A surgeon extracting a tooth from a patient, while the latter's concerned wife stands in the background. Etching by J. Taylor, 1811, after G. Dou.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient, his concerned wife hovers in the background. Etching after G. Dou.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated grimacing patient, in the open air. Mezzotint.
  • A reluctant girl sits down in the dentist's chair. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Thomas, 1920.
  • A dentist examining the teeth of a nervous patient, with extractor hidden behind his back. Color process print after A.R.
  • A troupe of travelling performers including a toothdrawer. Engraving by A. Paul after T. Rombouts.
  • A dentist recognizing a new patient from somewhere else, the patient (clutching her jaw) admits she works at the income tax office. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Thomas, 1921.