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  • Cross section of a molar with caries
  • A skull from Peru, with extensive caries or flaking decoration. Photograph.
  • A girl eating sweets and looking at a note warning of "holes ahead", referring to the danger of dental caries. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.
  • Iris: she caries a vase through which the rays of the sun pass to form the rainbow. Engraving by G. Folo, 1814, after G. Head.
  • La maniere de traicter les playes faictes tant par hacquebutes, que par fleches: et les accidentz d'icelles, comme fractures et caries des os, gangrene et mortificatoin: avec les pourtraictz des instrumentz necessaires pour leur curation: Et la methode de curer les combustions principalement faictes par la pouldre à canon / [Ambroise Paré].
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Wood engraving after G. de Cari.
  • An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).