Doctor's signboard hung with human teeth

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Doctor's signboard hung with human teeth. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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This wooden signboard is hung with human teeth. The inscription translates roughly as 'doctor for treating various diseases'. For those prospective patients unable to read the strings of teeth would have been a striking visual.

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