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Tooth Extraction

Part of
Tooth
Mouth - Surgery
Jaw, Edentulous, Partially

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Images from the collections

Images about Tooth Extraction

203 images from works
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an agonized patient. Lithograph by A. Bayot.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • A dentist looking in horror at the size of the tooth he has just extracted from his grimacing patient. Coloured aquatint.
  • A troupe of travelling performers including a toothdrawer. Oil painting, 16--, after Theodor Rombouts.
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient, in a pharmacy. Pen drawing.
  • Dental extraction: two men hold a man's head still and mouth open to demonstrate out-dated dental extraction techniques. Photograph, ca. 1921.
  • A country blacksmith in his forge extracting a tooth from a woman who is being restrained and taunted by her family. Coloured mezzotint.
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Works from the collections

215 works

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    Apparatus for arresting hemorrhage after the extraction of teeth / by Dr Roberts.

    Roberts William Alfred, -1880? | Date: [1846?]
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    A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.

    Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau | Date: [1834?] | Reference: 659102i
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    Des accidens de l'extraction des dents / par J. R. Duval.

    Duval, J. R. (Jacques Renâe), 1758-1854. | Date: 1802
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    A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated grimacing patient, in the open air. Mezzotint.

    | Reference: 16441i
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    A dentist looking in horror at the size of the tooth he has just extracted from his grimacing patient. Coloured aquatint.

    | Reference: 16652i
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Related topics

Dentist and patient
Pain
Costume
History, 18th Century
Great Britain
House furnishings
Medicine, Rural
Dental instruments and apparatus
Audiences
History, 19th Century

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