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  • A patient jumping up and screaming with pain while a surgeon is treating his leg; an onlooking woman seems to be pleading with the surgeon. Etching by J.G. van Vliet, c. 1630.
  • Christ presented to the people. Etching with engraving by Jacques Callot.
  • 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 scientist using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth from a man. Pen drawing by C.E.H., 1894.
  • A man with gout who finds the remedies worse than the disease. Etching by T.L. Busby, 182-.
  • A man removing a plaster from his hand. Etching attributed to D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.
  • 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 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 with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Franco-Prussian War: wounded soldiers being treated in the church at Mouzon n the Ardennes. Etching by A. Lançon, 1870.
  • A surgeon dressing the wound of a grimacing patient. Line engraving by Marinus van der Goes after A. Brouwer.
  • A poor man suffering from indigestion. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès.
  • A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his face in the background. Mezzotint by Jan van der Bruggen after D. Teniers II, 167-.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient, in a pharmacy. Pen drawing.
  • A surgeon removing a plaster from the back of a man's hand. Oil painting after (?) Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • A surgeon attending to a man's arm. Lithograph by J. Woelffle after A. Brouwer.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from his patient. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, ca. 1832.
  • An old labourer consulting a doctor about his aches and pains. Wood engraving by B. Thomas, 1912.
  • A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint after J. Harris the elder.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a grimacing patient. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly.
  • 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 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 man performing a painful operation on a woman's tooth. Oil painting by Pieter van Laer, 16--.
  • 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 (?).
  • Devils attack a man's head; symbolising headache. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, c. 1833.
  • A man's body receiving the ministrations of a healer. Drawing attributed to Pieter de Jode I.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an agonized patient. Coloured chalk drawing.
  • The agony in the garden; the apostles slumber while the soldiers and priests approach. Engraving by J. Sadeler, 1582, after M. de Vos.