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Dialogue includes: Dentist (as usual). "Now, my little man, I am not going to hurt you." Small boy (who has been there before). "Liar!"

1 photomechanical reproduction ; border 17.5 x 12 cm

A dentist trying to persuade a little boy that he is not going to hurt him, the child is not convinced. Reproduction after a drawing by E.H. Shepard, 1925.

Dialogue includes: "I suppose I needn't tell you the excruciating agony this one's going to give you."

1 photomechanical reproduction ; image 13.9 x 10.7 cm

A dentist scaring a patient by telling how painful the drill he is going to use is. Reproduction of a drawing after A. Yeoman, 1940.

1 drawing : pen and ink ; border 35.2 x 24.7 cm

A dentist (Uncle Sam) about to extract a tooth from a patient (Kaiser Wilhem II); representing America's successful involvement in the First world war. Pen drawing by P. Forbes-Robertson, 1918.

Positive number 51 in Knapp's original exhibition list
Print taken from one of a series of glass negatives collected by Surgeon Commander Montague Henry Knapp, Hon. Director of the Naval Medical Section of the Imperial War Museum and exhibited at Crystal Palace in June 1920. Correspondence in the Wellcome Archives indicates that Knapp (as Hon. Director and organiser for the IWM) was involved in the transfer of surplus naval and military medical material from the Imperial War Museum to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, in setting up exhibits, and in acquiring other materials for the Wellcome collections. Material specifically relating to Knapp's activities in setting up the Naval Warfare Section in the Imperial War Museum have been transferred to the IWM.

1 photograph : glass photonegative ; glass negative 12 x 16.3 cm

Dental surgery on board the hospital ship, H.M.S. Valiant. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

The depiction of the patient was praised by Karel van Mander in 1604 for its rendering of the expression of pain: K. van Mander, Het schilder-boeck, Haarlem 1604, fol. 214

1 print : line engraving ; image 11.7 x 7.5 cm

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing patient, who is being pick-pocketed by a woman. Line engraving after L. van Leyden, 1523.

1 photomechanical reproduction : printed in colour

A dentist examining the teeth of a nervous patient, with extractor hidden behind his back. Color photomechanical reproduction by A.R. after.

Medical Heritage Library

Vulcanizers and lathes with their appurtenances : flasks, flask presses ... polishing wheels and materials, etc. / The S.S. White Dental Mfg. Co.

Dialogue includes: Mabel (to dentist). "Be careful, won't you? I'm dreffly ticklish."

1 photomechanical reproduction ; border 12 x 18 cm

A reluctant girl sits down in the dentist's chair. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Thomas, 1920.

Critical notes of Mr. Gilbert's operative chair, with external fulcrum, for the extraction of teeth.

Dialogue includes: Patient (who has had a tooth extracted with gas). "Here, I say! You're charging by the 'therm,' aren't you?"

1 photomechanical reproduction ; border 14 x 18 cm

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A dentist trying to persuade a little boy that he is not going to hurt him, the child is not convinced. Reproduction after a drawing by E.H. Shepard, 1925.

A dentist scaring a patient by telling how painful the drill he is going to use is. Reproduction of a drawing after A. Yeoman, 1940.

A dentist (Uncle Sam) about to extract a tooth from a patient (Kaiser Wilhem II); representing America's successful involvement in the First world war. Pen drawing by P. Forbes-Robertson, 1918.

Dental surgery on board the hospital ship, H.M.S. Valiant. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing patient, who is being pick-pocketed by a woman. Line engraving after L. van Leyden, 1523.

A dentist examining the teeth of a nervous patient, with extractor hidden behind his back. Color photomechanical reproduction by A.R. after.

Vulcanizers and lathes with their appurtenances : flasks, flask presses ... polishing wheels and materials, etc. / The S.S. White Dental Mfg. Co.

A reluctant girl sits down in the dentist's chair. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Thomas, 1920.

Critical notes of Mr. Gilbert's operative chair, with external fulcrum, for the extraction of teeth.

A patient paying a dentist after having a tooth removed with gas. Reproduction of a drawing after L.P. Dowd, 1922.

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A dentist trying to persuade a little boy that he is not going to hurt him, the child is not convinced. Reproduction after a drawing by E.H. Shepard, 1925.

A dentist scaring a patient by telling how painful the drill he is going to use is. Reproduction of a drawing after A. Yeoman, 1940.

A dentist (Uncle Sam) about to extract a tooth from a patient (Kaiser Wilhem II); representing America's successful involvement in the First world war. Pen drawing by P. Forbes-Robertson, 1918.

Dental surgery on board the hospital ship, H.M.S. Valiant. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing patient, who is being pick-pocketed by a woman. Line engraving after L. van Leyden, 1523.

A dentist examining the teeth of a nervous patient, with extractor hidden behind his back. Color photomechanical reproduction by A.R. after.

Vulcanizers and lathes with their appurtenances : flasks, flask presses ... polishing wheels and materials, etc. / The S.S. White Dental Mfg. Co.

A reluctant girl sits down in the dentist's chair. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Thomas, 1920.

Critical notes of Mr. Gilbert's operative chair, with external fulcrum, for the extraction of teeth.

A patient paying a dentist after having a tooth removed with gas. Reproduction of a drawing after L.P. Dowd, 1922.

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