The Tooth-ache

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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,"
Illustration showing a man standing holding a tooth in a pair of pliers and another man laying on the ground below a knocked over chair. Text at the bottom of the illustration reads, "But, AT LAST IT IS OUT!"
Two-paneled comic showing a man throwing his hands up at a clock and then hugging another man. Text reads "When you are astonished to find that the operation has lasted less than a minute. You bless the Dentist."
Fragment of panel 22 with a drawing of the tooth-ache sufferer asleep in bed, having nightmarish dreams
Cover of a book with image in the center of a tooth-ache sufferer tortured by two devilish creatures. The text above the image reads: Price 15 cents; The tooth-ache imagined by Horace Mayhew; below, The origin of the tooth-ache and realized by George Cruikshank
Title
The Tooth-ache
Description
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
Creator
Mayhew, Horace, 1816-1872
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Date
1849
Format
226 cm x 13 cm
Language
English
Publisher
D. Bogue (London)
Source
The Tooth-ache, imagined by Horace Mayhew ; and realized by George Cruikshank. London, 1849
Subject
Toothache - Caricatures and cartoons
Type
book
Tag
Tooth extraction
Item sets
Medicine in Art