Medicine in Art

Item set

Title
Medicine in Art
Description
Collection of satirical prints, drawings and images related to dentistry, gout and other medical subjects

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14 items

  • [The First Mercy Hospital]
    Drawing of a first permanent building of Mercy Hospital
  • A dentist
    A horse rider clasping at his jaw and calling for a dentist with an explanatory label: Curse the Hannibal he's knocked out all my teeth! No. 45 of Heath's lithographic satires
    Framed color print of a horse rider clasping at his jaw and calling for a dentist with an explanatory label: Curse the Hannibal he's knocked out all my teeth! No. 45 of Heath's lithographic satires.
  • A Tooth Puller
    Colored print in wood frame. Crowd in early-American style dress watches as a man pulls a young man's tooth with an instrument.
    Framed print of Jan Steen's painting "A Tooth Puller"
  • An Exquisite Taste, with an enlarged understanding
    A diner enjoying his drink seated comfortably in a chair with his leg rested on a gout stool
  • Easing the Toothach
    Framed colored print. A man in regency-era clothes sits in a chair and pulls off the dentist's wig while the dentist pulls his tooth with an instrument.
    A tooth-puller extracts a tooth while the seated patient is pulling off dentist's wig. Colored pen drawing by A.G. 1821, after J. Gillray, 1796
  • La gotta del Sultano
    Gout sufferer with a foot resting on a stool
  • Le Mal De Dent
    Colored, framed lithograph. Officer with a sword poses with a tooth in his hand over a patient and dentist.
    Framed print with comical scene of tooth extraction
  • Les exploits d'un Dentiste
    Colored lithograph in wood frame with caption in French below reading "Les Exploits D'un Dentiste!" Man is grabbing head in pain while a dentist reaches out and a nurse looks on.
    Framed lithography of a satirical scene with a dentist who pulls out the wrong tooth and jokes with the patient in pain: "Damn it, wrong one again. Doesn't matter, won't cost you any extra". There are also dentist's assistants present and another patient in pain waiting in the room.
  • Podagra nodosa proesenscruciat virum approbatum
    Framed print with a scene with a gout sufferer, seated with both his legs rested on a gout stool who is throwing in frustration caused by the pain, a plate with food at his maid.
  • The Dentist
    Grayscale illustration of a dentist holding a pulled out tooth in one hand, while his other hand is resting on a distressed patient's head
    Dentist holding a pulled out tooth in one hand, while his other hand is resting on a patient's head
  • The learned Scotchman or magistrates mistake!!
    A Scotchman bows in apology to a magistrate and his wife. The magistrate's gouty leg is resting on a foot stool. Rowlandson after Woodward
  • The Tooth Drawer
    Grayscale engraving in frame. Dentist puts his finger in patient's mouth with a single onlooker in the background.
    Framed engraving of tooth extraction after Gerrit Dou's painting rendered by J. Taylor
  • The Tooth-ache
    Three panels of a comic showing a man with a very swollen face struggling to sleep and then dreaming of a painful dental procedure. Text reads "But, in the middle of the night, you are aroused once more to the painful nature of your position and strongly wish that the Dentist had just looked at your tooth. At last, just as your boots and hot water are brought in, you fall asleep and have the most delicious dreams,"
    Selected panels from the accordion style sheet of Cruikshank's cartoons depicting a patient with toothache, his suffering and nightmares, the state after tooth extraction and him expressing his gratitude to a dentist
  • Von dem Ziperlin oder Podagra
    Gout sufferer carried in a sedan chair