Four scenes of the beginning of a dental operation involving a dentist trying to extract a distraught patient's tooth. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.

Horace Mayhew

Lettering: You resign yourself boldly to your fate. Once in the hands of the dentist, the time seems interminable. This is the first quarter of an hour! The second quarter of an hour!