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<p>Hendrik van der Burgh worked in the Hague. Like many European painters of his time he had a close attachment to Dutch paintings of the Golden Age--the seventeenth century—which he used as the model for the setting in the present work. The stillness of the spacious room in a surgeon-apothecary's house is disturbed by the reaction of the patient to the pain of the operation: as the operator digs into the gum, the patient kicks out and sends his own basket of eggs across the floor. A dog barks at the disturbance. The painting is recorded as having been auctioned in Amsterdam in 1817</p>

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 56 x approximately 71.2 cm (width irregular)

Interior of a Dutch house with an operator attending to a man's teeth. Oil painting by Hendrik van der Burgh.

A work on operative dentistry ... / by G.V. Black ; with revision by Arthur D. Black.

The principles and practice of dentistry : including anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, dental surgery and mechanism / by Chapin A. Harris.

206 pages, 4 leaves of plates : illustrations ; (8vo)

A practical treatise on the operations of surgical and mechanical dentistry / By Samuel C. Harbert.

Medical Heritage Library

517 pages : illustrations, plates. ; 25 cm

Orthodontia and orthopaedia of the face.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated grimacing patient, in the open air. Mezzotint.

1037 pages, 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

A system of oral surgery : being a treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws, face, teeth, and associate parts / by James E. Garretson.

Operative and dental anatomy technics : a class-room and laboratory manual for freshmen dental students / by W.H.O. McGehee ... illustrated with 235 engravings.

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Interior of a Dutch house with an operator attending to a man's teeth. Oil painting by Hendrik van der Burgh.

A work on operative dentistry ... / by G.V. Black ; with revision by Arthur D. Black.

The principles and practice of dentistry : including anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, dental surgery and mechanism / by Chapin A. Harris.

A practical treatise on the operations of surgical and mechanical dentistry / By Samuel C. Harbert.

Orthodontia and orthopaedia of the face.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated grimacing patient, in the open air. Mezzotint.

A system of oral surgery : being a treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws, face, teeth, and associate parts / by James E. Garretson.

Operative and dental anatomy technics : a class-room and laboratory manual for freshmen dental students / by W.H.O. McGehee ... illustrated with 235 engravings.

The Dental surgeons' directory.

Veterinary dental surgery, for the use of students, practitioners and stockmen.

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Interior of a Dutch house with an operator attending to a man's teeth. Oil painting by Hendrik van der Burgh.

A work on operative dentistry ... / by G.V. Black ; with revision by Arthur D. Black.

The principles and practice of dentistry : including anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, dental surgery and mechanism / by Chapin A. Harris.

A practical treatise on the operations of surgical and mechanical dentistry / By Samuel C. Harbert.

Orthodontia and orthopaedia of the face.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated grimacing patient, in the open air. Mezzotint.

A system of oral surgery : being a treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws, face, teeth, and associate parts / by James E. Garretson.

Operative and dental anatomy technics : a class-room and laboratory manual for freshmen dental students / by W.H.O. McGehee ... illustrated with 235 engravings.

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