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  • Toothache. Boss, in Wells Cathedral, Somerset.
  • A man with toothache. Etching by W. Hole.
  • A sculpture of a man with toothache. Wood engraving after Mr. Anderson.
  • Forrester's Neuralgic Mixture : cures toothache and neuralgia. Never fails. One shilling bottles.
  • Forrester's Neuralgic Mixture : cures toothache and neuralgia. Never fails. One shilling bottles.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: he suffers from toothache. Collotype (?), 1907, after Benozzo Gozzoli.
  • A man with the side of his face bandaged up because of toothache. Wood engraving.
  • Three miserable men suffering from gout, toothache and flu sitting around a table. Coloured lithograph.
  • Two monks in a laboratory trying to find a remedy for one monk's toothache. Watercolour by J. Gregory, 1896.
  • A man squirting a clyster in to somebody's mouth in order to cure his toothache, at a dinner table. Coloured etching.
  • A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1825.
  • Neuralgia, face-ache, tic in the head, & toothache are cured certainly, safely, and speedily, by Tikheel... / Clarke, Bleasdale, Bell & Co.
  • Neuralgia, face-ache, tic in the head, & toothache are cured certainly, safely, and speedily, by Tikheel... / Clarke, Bleasdale, Bell & Co.
  • A mother and her five delighted children turned away from their dentist's at Easter because he has toothache. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1874.
  • Dr. Fenner's Golden Relief : this remedy cures all pain, as toothache, neuralgia, rheumatism, backache, cures fresh cuts and bruises, cures diarrhoea, summer complaints, dysentery... / M.M. Fenner.
  • Dr. Fenner's Golden Relief : this remedy cures all pain, as toothache, neuralgia, rheumatism, backache, cures fresh cuts and bruises, cures diarrhoea, summer complaints, dysentery... / M.M. Fenner.
  • The story of a man with toothache, his attempts at self help and the final resort visiting the dental surgeon: twenty-four vignettes. Coloured wood engraving by W. Busch, 1862.
  • The story of a man with toothache, his attempts at self help and the final resort visiting the dental surgeon: twenty-four vignettes. Coloured wood engraving by W. Busch, 1862.
  • The story of a man with toothache, his attempts at self help and the final resort visiting the dental surgeon: twenty-four vignettes. Coloured wood engraving by W. Busch, 1862.
  • Forty five different scenes telling the tale of a man with toothache, his various attempts at trying to cure himself and the final recourse to the dentist. Wood engraving by G. Cruikshank after H. Mayhew.
  • Nepal; street of dentists, Kathmandu 1986. In 1982, there were 17 government-trained dental surgeons in Nepal, some of whom practised in this street. For those too fearful or who could not afford to visit one of these surgeries, a nearby shrine was dedicated to Vaisha Dev, the god of toothache. Surrounding the god was a plank of wood into which thousands of nails had been driven. Planting a nail was believed to get rid of toothache by pinning down all evil spirits and influences.
  • A man with toothache sits in his nightgown, with a handkerchief around his face, in a surgery [?], and is discovered by "Botsam" in fright to be turning into a devil. Wood engraving by F. Wentworth after H.K. Browne.
  • Helleborus x hybridus Hort. Ex Vilmorin Ranunculaceae. A range of hybrids from Helleborus orientalis the Oriental hellebore. Distribution: Europe through to the Caucasus. All very poisonous. Culpeper (1650) says: “The roots (boiled in vinegar) ... be an admirable remedy against inveterate scabs, itch and leprosy, the same helps the toothache, being held in the mouth
  • Helleborus x hybridus Hort. Ex Vilmorin Ranunculaceae. A range of hybrids from Helleborus orientalis the Oriental hellebore. Distribution: Europe through to the Caucasus. All very poisonous. Culpeper (1650) says: “The roots (boiled in vinegar) ... be an admirable remedy against inveterate scabs, itch and leprosy, the same helps the toothache, being held in the mouth: dropped into the ears, helpeth deafness coming of melancholy and noises in the ears
  • Polemonium caeruleum L. Polemoniaceae Jacob's ladder, Greek Valerian. Hardy perennial. Distribution: Temperate Europe. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Beck, 2005), and Lyte (1578) recommended it drunk in wine, for malignant ulcers, dysentery, difficulty in micturition, hip disease. The root was worn round the neck to protect against scorpions, and stopped toothache if chewed. Called Valerian Graeca by Dodoens (1551) and Parkinson (1640), Valeriana peregrina Belgarum by Lobel (1576). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tanacetum cinerariifolium Sch.Blp. Asteraceae Dalmation chrysanthemum, Pyrethrum, Pellitory, Tansy. Distribution: Balkans. Source of the insecticides called pyrethrins. The Physicians of Myddfai in the 13th century used it for toothache. Gerard called it Pyrethrum officinare, Pellitorie of Spain but mentions no insecticidal use, mostly for 'palsies', agues, epilepsy, headaches, to induce salivation, and applied to the skin, to induce sweating. He advised surgeons to use it to make a cream against the Morbum Neopolitanum [syphilis]. However he also describes Tanacetum or Tansy quite separately.. Quincy (1718) gave the same uses
  • Primula veris L. Primulaceae. Cowslip, Herba paralysis Distribution: W. Asia, Europe. Fuchs ((1542) quotes Dioscorides Pliny and Galen, with numerous uses, from bruises, toothache, as a hair dye, for oedema, inflamed eye, and mixed with honey, wine or vinegar for ulcer and wounds, for scorpion bites, and pain in the sides and chest, and more. Lobel (1576) calls them Primula veriflorae, Phlomides, Primula veris, Verbascula. Like other herbals of the 16th and 17th century, the woodcuts leave one in no doubt that Primula veris was being written about. However, other translators of Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959 with Goodyear's 1655 translation
  • Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. Asteraceae Milk thistle. Carduus Mariae. Distribution: Europe. Gerard (1633) calls it Carduus Mariae, Carduus Lectus, or Ladies Thistle, and Carduus leucographus [meaning 'white writing', in reference to the white markings on the leaves] because Pliny wrote about a plant he called Leucographis although Gerard notes that it would be 'hard to assume this to be the same [plant].' He also queries if it is the same as the Alba spina of Galen. Of the latter he reports that Galen recommended it for all manner of bleeding, toothache and the seeds for cramp. Gerard writes that Dioscorides recommends that a drink of the seeds helps infants whose sinews are 'drawne together'
  • Polygonum bistorta L. Polygonaceae Bistort, snakeweed, Easter Ledges. Distribution: Europe, N & W Asia. Culpeper: “... taken inwardly resist pestilence and poison, helps ruptures, and bruises, stays fluxes, vomiting and immoderate flowing of the terms in women, helps inflammations and soreness of the mouth, and fastens loose teeth, being bruised and boiled in white wine and the mouth washed with it.” In modern herbal medicine it is still used for a similar wide variety of internal conditions, but it can also be cooked and eaten as a vegetable. The use to relieve toothache, applied as a paste to the affected tooth, seems to have been widespread. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.