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Drawing of a first permanent building of Mercy Hospital

A dentist

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.

Colored print in wood frame. Crowd in early-American style dress watches as a man pulls a young man's tooth with an instrument.

A Tooth Puller

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

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.

Easing the Toothach

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

Colored, framed lithograph. Officer with a sword poses with a tooth in his hand over a patient and dentist.

Le Mal De Dent

Framed print with comical scene of tooth extraction

Les exploits d'un Dentiste

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.

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

The Dentist

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

Grayscale engraving in frame. Dentist puts his finger in patient's mouth with a single onlooker in the background.

The Tooth Drawer

Framed engraving of tooth extraction after Gerrit Dou's painting rendered by J. Taylor

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,"

The Tooth-ache

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