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Medical Heritage Library

On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner.

Photomacrograph of a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth. The great white shark is one of the most popularly known sharks, with a fearsome reputation for attacking humans. It is considered the world's largest predator but has a broad range of prey which includes other marine mammals, bony fish and rays. Large white sharks can also catch reptiles, birds and other large fish. Their upper teeth are large, triangular in shape and sharply serrated which enables them to prey on large creatures. Their lower teeth are narrower and used to hold prey. Width of image is 7.5 cm.

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth

facsim. (95 pages, 43 unnumbered pages), vii, 212 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Des Bartholomæus Eustachius Libellus de dentibus / Neudruck nach der 1. Aufl. hsg., in die deutsche Sprache übers. und erläutert, sowie einer Originalabhandlung "Bartholomæus Eustachius und seine Verdienste um die Zahnheilkunde," von Fritz Driak.

Radiograph of a maxilla and mandible showing evidence of food packing from a pre-historic Ethiopian cemetary excavated at Jebel Moya, Sudan. Related images: M0000505, M0000506

Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0000409-M0000573

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0000504: Radiograph of maxilla and mandible showing food packing

iv, 2 leaves, [9]-316 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith.

Photograph showing the refinement of facial details of a human head modelled in clay. This is an early stage in the process of anatomically modelling a human head. The skull is viewed from the front (anterior view) but was created by the sculptor working from behind (posterior view) primarily by touch. With the cranium completed, the sculptor now continues to work from the front.



This image forms part of a series of work titled "Stranger than a Wolf" showing the gradual anatomical creation of a human head in clay. For the entire process (forming the cranial bone structure and placing the facial muscles, features and skin) see related images. As a reference, a male human skull was chosen from the Panum Collection, Copenhagen. Sculptor Ellie Scheepens was asked to reproduce it with attention to comparison and touch, and without viewing the front of the head and face (anterior view) at all. This unique method of forensic modelling was directed throughout the process by artist Heather Spears. Concept: artist, writer and educator Heather Spears. Sculpture: Ellie Scheepens. Photography: Orsolya Benkóczi and Isaac Carter.

Human head sculpted in clay, refinement of facial features

The miniature world of Toothville, where dental hygiene is maintained by builders, decorators and cleaners for a healthy mouth. This image depicts an individual polishing the tooth enamel.

Tooth polish

<p>The dentist's shop is similar in appearance to an apothecary's shop of the time, containing many of the same elements: skull, pestle and mortar, apothecary jars, peculiar specimens, stuffed animals and skeletons of strange creatures</p>

1 painting : watercolour ; image 23.3 x 33.2 cm

An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.

The teeth, in relation to beauty, voice and health. Being the result of twenty years' practical experience and assiduous study to produce the full development and regularity of those essential organs / by John Nicholles.

[i], xviii, 47 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Three memoirs on the developement, structure of the teeth and epithelium : read at the ninth annual meeting of the British Association for the Encouragement of Science, held at Birmingham, in August, 1839 : with diagrams exhibited in illustration of them / by Alexander Nasmyth.

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On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner.

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth

Des Bartholomæus Eustachius Libellus de dentibus / Neudruck nach der 1. Aufl. hsg., in die deutsche Sprache übers. und erläutert, sowie einer Originalabhandlung "Bartholomæus Eustachius und seine Verdienste um die Zahnheilkunde," von Fritz Driak.

M0000504: Radiograph of maxilla and mandible showing food packing

A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith.

Human head sculpted in clay, refinement of facial features

Tooth polish

An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.

The teeth, in relation to beauty, voice and health. Being the result of twenty years' practical experience and assiduous study to produce the full development and regularity of those essential organs / by John Nicholles.

Three memoirs on the developement, structure of the teeth and epithelium : read at the ninth annual meeting of the British Association for the Encouragement of Science, held at Birmingham, in August, 1839 : with diagrams exhibited in illustration of them / by Alexander Nasmyth.

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On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner.

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth

Des Bartholomæus Eustachius Libellus de dentibus / Neudruck nach der 1. Aufl. hsg., in die deutsche Sprache übers. und erläutert, sowie einer Originalabhandlung "Bartholomæus Eustachius und seine Verdienste um die Zahnheilkunde," von Fritz Driak.

M0000504: Radiograph of maxilla and mandible showing food packing

A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith.

Human head sculpted in clay, refinement of facial features

Tooth polish

An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.

The teeth, in relation to beauty, voice and health. Being the result of twenty years' practical experience and assiduous study to produce the full development and regularity of those essential organs / by John Nicholles.

Three memoirs on the developement, structure of the teeth and epithelium : read at the ninth annual meeting of the British Association for the Encouragement of Science, held at Birmingham, in August, 1839 : with diagrams exhibited in illustration of them / by Alexander Nasmyth.

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