Gallery›Wellcome Collection›The final stages of a dental operation involving the dentist falling over the back of a chair onto the patient in an attempt to extract the stubborn tooth. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.
The final stages of a dental operation involving the dentist falling over the back of a chair onto the patient in an attempt to extract the stubborn tooth. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.
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The final stages of a dental operation involving the dentist falling over the back of a chair onto the patient in an attempt to extract the stubborn tooth. Coloured wood engraving by G. Cruikshank(?) after H. Mayhew.

Horace Mayhew

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The third quarter of an hour!!! The fourth quarter of an hour!!!!

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