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Our endless quest for eternal youth

From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.

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When monarchs healed the sick

Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.

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Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing

James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.

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  • John Attenburrow. Lithograph by M. Gauci, 1833, after T. Barber.
  • Pro fide et honore : colo maxima / John Walker Barber-Lomax.
  • A French barber shaving John Bull. Coloured etching.
  • John Banester giving the visceral lecture at Barber-Surgeons' Hall, London, in 1581. Oil painting by Jack Orr,1913, after an English painter.
  • John Banester giving the visceral lecture at Barber-Surgeons' Hall, London, in 1581. Oil painting by Jack Orr,1913, after an English painter.
  • John Banester giving the visceral lecture at Barber-Surgeons' Hall, London, in 1581. Oil painting by Jack Orr,1913, after an English painter.
  • Benjamin Disraeli as a barber called "Ben Jingo" is cutting the face of John Bull while shaving him. Engraving (?) by W. Dewane, 188-.
  • Parody coat of arms of a united company of surgeons and barbers. Drawing (?) by John Marshall, 1798.
  • Parody coat of arms of a united company of surgeons and barbers. Drawing (?) by John Marshall, 1798.
  • Parody coat of arms of a united company of surgeons and barbers. Drawing (?) by John Marshall, 1798.
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