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  • A surgeon-apothecary pulling out a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • A surgeon-apothecary pulling out a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • A surgeon-apothecary pulling out a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • A surgeon-apothecary pulling out a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • A surgeon-apothecary pulling out a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • A surgeon-apothecary pulling out a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • "A new era of tooth-pulling", first dental operation performed on Horace Wells.
  • A man extracting a tooth from the mouth of another man by pulling a string attached to the tooth; after or in the style of Tim Bobbin (John Collier, 1708-1786)
  • 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 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 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 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 is in such pain that he pulls the tooth-drawer's wig off. Coloured etching after J. Gillray (?).
  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal causing him to pull away violently and extract a tooth. Coloured etching, 1810, after J. Collier.
  • 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.
  • A German military dentist pulls a tooth from an agonised soldier. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1892.
  • A woman reaches down into a man's mouth to pull out another tooth; teeth lie scattered on the floor. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1839.
  • A woman reaches down into a man's mouth to pull out another tooth; teeth lie scattered on the floor. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1839.
  • A customer asking for a Christmas box from a dentist that he regularly visits, the dentist retorts he can have a tooth pulled for free. Wood engraving after [L.S.].
  • 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 standing woman preparing to remove facial hair from seated woman using a piece of string. Watercolour, China, 18--.
  • 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.
  • The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.