A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint by J. Dixon after J. Harris the elder.

London (no. 13 in Cornhill) : Printed for John Bowles, Published according to Act of Parliament A.D. 1768.

1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 35 x 25 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/47/51

The ludicrous operator, or blacksmith turn'd tooth drawer. Why squeeze your hat, and seize my cap As if you dreaded some mishap? Keep not your spirits on the rack, I'm a licentiate: not a quack. Designed by J. Harris & improv'd by drawings after the life by J. Dixon. Dixon fecit.

Wellcome Collection 643336i