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  • Devils attack a man's head; symbolising headache. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, c. 1833.
  • Christ, tied to a column, being whipped by two men. Engraving after A. Durer, 1512.
  • Saint Paul, shipwrecked on Malta, is attacked by a snake which he shakes off into a fire; it does not harm him and the onlookers take him for a god. Etching after J. Thornhill.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured pen drawing by A.G., 1821, after J. Gillray, 1796.
  • A short dentist (standing on a stool) extracting a tooth from an extremely tall lady who in her agony kicks over his work table. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1821, after A.E.
  • Physiognomy showing a man trying to control himself under the duress of pain. Drawing, c. 1789, after A. Schluter.
  • A boy has cut his finger which is being treated by his mother; two other siblings hold him back while he resists. Coloured etching (?) after D. Wilkie, 18--.
  • A dentist reassures a terrified patient. Colour process print by C. Josef, c. 1930.
  • A man with the side of his face bandaged up because of toothache. Wood engraving.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient. Etching by J. Collier, 1773.
  • Marie Carteri, a girl suffering from growths in her lacrimal glands as well as many aches and pains. Engraving.
  • A Chinese man confined to a contraption similar to stocks which constrains the movement of his head and pins his legs down on the wooden planks. Watercolour drawing.
  • Niobe grieving over the loss of her fourteen children while holding some of their dead bodies. Etching by B. Pinelli after F. Rehberg, 1810.
  • Two surgeons treating two seated male patients in a surgery, many surgeons' dishes are hanging from the ceiling. Line engraving by W. Kilian, 1652, after C. Ortz.
  • Moses and Eleazar show the brazen serpent before the writhing multitude afflicted with snake-bites. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after P.P. Rubens, ca. 1635-40.
  • Christ crowned with thorns. Engraving after A. Durer, 1512.
  • A scientist using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth from a man. Pen drawing by C.E.H., 1894.
  • A dentist examining the teeth of a nervous patient, with extractor hidden behind his back. Color process print after A.R.
  • A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.
  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal causing him to pull away violently and extract a tooth. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.
  • A young man removing a bandage from his hand, while an old woman offers him another; representing the sense of touch. Etching by G. Greux after D. Teniers.
  • A man in pain receiving medicines from a housemaid. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
  • A Chinese man confined to a contraption which ties his legs on to a wooden gallows whilst pinning his head firmly to the ground. Watercolour drawing.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • A surgeon performing a Caesarean operation on an agonized woman who had apparently been carrying a dead baby in her womb for five years. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1560.
  • A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint, 1792, after J. Harris the elder.
  • Christ beaten and mocked before the High Priest Caiaphas. Etching by Jacques Callot.
  • A dentist looking in horror at the size of the tooth he has just extracted from his grimacing patient. Coloured aquatint.
  • 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.
  • The mocking and flagellation of Christ; he is crowned with thorns and beaten with sticks. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Carracci.