A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Coloured mezzotint after J. Harris the elder, ca. 1768.

London (No. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard) : Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, [1768?]

1 print : mezzotint, with watercolour ; platemark 35.2 x 25.2 cm

The village doctor, or blacksmith turned tooth drawer. Bears number lower left : 612 Three stanzas of verse engraved below the mezzotint: Why Dame how you hollow! and hold by my horn, I never heard such a noise since I was born. How you pinch up your hat, and squeeze up your eyes, You've broke both the drums of my ears with your cries. That I hurt you you ne'er shall make me believe, It's as easy as drawing a pin from ones sleeve; I challenge the country for drawing you fool, I've drawn teeth with prongs like a three legged stool. No doubt on't quoth Gaffer, and lifts up his hand, Yet half of an hour is a great while to stand; And tho' you're surprized to hear my dame bawl, Yet thrice round the shop is a pretty good hawl.

Wellcome Collection 643378i