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  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an agonized patient. Coloured chalk drawing.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient, in a pharmacy. Pen drawing.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient, in a pharmacy. Pen drawing.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient, in a pharmacy. Pen drawing.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.
  • Sudan: barbering, tooth-drawing and cupping being practised. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Sudan: barbering, tooth-drawing and cupping being practised. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • A tooth-drawer examining the tooth of a seated patient amidst paraphernalia relating to his profession. Pencil drawing attributed to D. Teniers II.
  • A tooth-drawer examining the tooth of a seated patient amidst paraphernalia relating to his profession. Pencil drawing attributed to D. Teniers II.
  • 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. 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. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.
  • 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 frightening his patient with a hot coal causing him to pull away violently and extract a tooth. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.
  • Possibly the temple at Nu Tooth, Sri Lanka. Watercolour drawing by C.H.S.B.
  • An itinerant tooth-drawer performing an operation on a struggling male patient. Ink wash drawing after P.A. Wille, 1788.
  • A patient paying a dentist after having a tooth removed with gas. Reproduction of a drawing after L.P. Dowd, 1922.
  • A scientist using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth from a man. Pen drawing by C.E.H., 1894.
  • A scientist using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth from a man. Pen drawing by C.E.H., 1894.
  • 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 (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.
  • A man deciding that the dentist's fee for pulling a tooth is too expensive - he enquires how much is it to loosen it. Reproduction of a drawing, 1926.
  • A dentist (Uncle Sam) about to extract a tooth from a patient (Kaiser Wilhem II); representing America's successful involvement in the First world war. Pen drawing by P. Forbes-Robertson, 1918.
  • 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 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.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage to an audience while his assistant draws a tooth from a man. Etching by Diebiey, 1767.
  • Men and women performing various trades and professions. Coloured etching.
  • The sense of smell in Boone's "Allegories of the senses"
  • The Virgin with four saints: the archangel Michael, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Apollonia and Saint John the Evangelist. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after P. Vannucci, il Perugino.
  • Kandy, Sri Lanka: the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall at the shrine of the tooth of the Buddha. Gouache by H. M. Paget, 1901, after S.P. Hall.