A dentist extracting a tooth from a fashionable female patient who is surrounded by young men. Coloured etching, 1806.

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4 June 1806
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16623i
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A dentist extracting a tooth from a fashionable female patient who is surrounded by young men. Coloured etching, 1806. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London (69 St. Pauls Church Yard) : Bowles & Carver, 4 June 1806.

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 17.5 x 22.4 cm

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The dentist. ... Lettering continues: 'A dentist fam'd for easing pain and pockets too, contriv'd to gain by many a repeated fee, a fortune large; - then who but he! So fame reports, "but" says a wag, "the fellow has no cause to brag, like many more twixt north and south, he does but live from hand to mouth".'

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Wellcome Collection 16623i

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