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A fashionable dentist's practice: healthy teeth are being extracted from poor children to create dentures for the wealthy. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
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A fashionable dentist's practice: healthy teeth are being extracted from poor children to create dentures for the wealthy. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.

Thomas Rowlandson

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Transplanting of teeth. ; Rowlandson 1787.

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