Now string's put fast on tooth that aches

Collection:: Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Author(s):: Collier, John, 1708-1786
Publication:: [London:] , May 1773
Language(s):: English
Format:: Still image
Subject(s):: Dentists
Tooth Extraction
Genre(s):: Caricatures
Abstract:: The dentist is extracting a tooth with string; with the string attached, he thrusts a hot coal in the patient's face; the patient recoils in horror and thereby removes the tooth by his own actions.
Copyright:: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Related Title(s):: Is part of: Human passions delineated in above 120 figures...designed in the Hogarthian style...; See related catalog record: WZ 336 C69 no. 1
Extent:: 1 print
Technique:: engraving
NLM Unique ID:: 101425279 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:: A014346
Permanent Link:: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101425279

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