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Oddments in dental history. Insect bodies to cure the toothache / Malvin E. Ring.
Ring, Malvin EDate: 1973- Books
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The odontalgist, or, How to preserve the teeth, cure toothache, and regulate dentition from infancy to age.
Clark, J. Paterson (John Paterson)Date: 1854- Pictures
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.
Busch, Wilhelm, active 1862.Date: 1862Reference: 16717iPart of: München Bilderbogen- Books
William P. Dewees on the effect of maternal toothache upon the secretion of breast milk / T.E. Cone, Jr.
Cone, Thomas E., 1915-Date: 1987- Books
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The odontalgist: or, How to preserve the teeth, cure toothache, and regulate dentition from infancy to age / by J. Paterson Clark.
Clark, J. Paterson (John Paterson)Date: 1854- Ephemera
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Neuralgia, face-ache, tic in the head, & toothache are cured certainly, safely, and speedily, by Tikheel... / Clarke, Bleasdale, Bell & Co.
Clarke, Bleasdale, Bell & Co.Date: [1880?]- Books
[Review of: On caries of the teeth, and the cure of toothache without extraction / by Donaldson Mackenzie. London : John Churchill, 1855].
Date: 1855- Pictures
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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.
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Reference: 17178i- Pictures
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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.
Mayhew, Horace, 1816-1872.Reference: 16690i- Books
Oddments in dental history. Mixed medicines for cure of the toothache and whatever else ails you : treatment in Turkey of 1861 / Malvin E. Ring.
Ring, Malvin EDate: 1981- Ephemera
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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.
Fenner, M. M. (Milton M.)Date: [1880?]- Books
The flower of remedies against the toothache : M. Arnauld Gilles the first French text on dentistry and the disease of the teeth / translated by Jacques R. Fouré ; edited by Milton B. Asbell.
Gilles, Arnauld.Date: 1996- Ephemera
Optalidon : analgesic and sedative : an association of small doses of Sandoptal (isobutylallyl barbituric acid), amidopyrine and caffeine : affords symptomatic relief of pain in headache, toothache, neuralgia; allays nervous excitability and restlessness / Sandoz Products Ltd.
Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]- Digital Images
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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
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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An essay on the remittent and intermittent diseases including, generically, marsh fever and neuralgia : comprising, under the former, various anomalies, obscurities, and consequences and, under a new systematic view of the latter, treating of tic douloureux, sciatica, headach [sic], ophthalmia, toothache, and palsy, and many other modes and consequences of generic disease / by John Macculloch.
Macculloch, John, 1773-1835.Date: 1830- Digital Images
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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
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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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
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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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.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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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
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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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.
Carole Reeves- Digital Images
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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. Lyte (1578) calls them Cowslippe, Petie mulleyn, Verbasculum odoratum, Primula veris, Herbae paralysis and Artheticae. Along with cowslips and oxeslips, he says they are 'used dayly among other pot herbes, but in Physicke there is no great account of them. They are good for the head and synewes ...'. 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
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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Dental operations with five demons: one being operated on, another about to be. Coloured etching.
Reference: 11644i- Pictures
Baume Odontologique: product label. Colour lithograph.
Date: [1890?/1910]Reference: 538257iPart of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.- Pictures
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Five demons: one performs dental surgery on another, while another with a swollen mouth waits for attention. Coloured etching.
Reference: 11643i- Books
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Observations sur quelques affections douloureuses de la face, considérées dans leur rapport avec l'organe dentaire / Par J.R. Duval.
Duval, J.-R. (Jacques-Réné), 1758-1854.Date: 1814