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  • A surgeon removing a plaster from the back of a man's hand. Oil painting after (?) Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A man in pain receiving medicines from a housemaid. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured stipple engraving by P. Maguire after J. Gillray, 1796.
  • A street tooth-drawer on his stall extracting a tooth from a patient. Wood engraving after C. Fripp (?).
  • An elaborately dressed travelling tooth-drawer extracting a tooth in a carriage from a patient. Drypoint.
  • A dentist trying to persuade a little boy that he is not going to hurt him, the child is not convinced. Reproduction after a drawing by E.H. Shepard, 1925.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • A seated woman giving birth aided by a midwife and two other attendants, in the background two men are looking at the stars and plotting a horoscope. Woodcut, 1583[?].
  • A surgeon applying medicine to a wound in the shoulder of a man in pain. Oil painting by Gerrit Lundens, 1649.
  • A man in Egypt tied to a stake receives a beating with wooden bats. Lithograph by Edouard after J.J. Rifaud.
  • A badly wounded soldier being carried off the battlefield on a makeshift stretcher made of bayonets. Coloured aquatint.
  • A travelling tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious patient. Engraving by G. Volpato after F. Maggiotto.
  • Six faces expressing the human passions: (clockwise from top left) attention, admiration with astonishment, veneration, simple bodily pain, joy with tranquility, and admiration. Coloured etching, c. 1800, after C. Le Brun.
  • An elderly dentist examining a female patient's mouth. Watercolour by M. Anderson.
  • The agony of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane; an angel descends to strengthen him while cherubs hover with the instruments of the Passion. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • Christ beaten and mocked before Caiaphas. Etching by J. Callot, 1630.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw while he is seated and conscious, blood flows to the floor. Woodcut, 1531.
  • The head of a wounded soldier, tense with pain, and blood being transfused; representing the need for blood donors. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Aquatint by R.B. Peake after H.W. Bunbury.
  • The binding and flagellation of Christ. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Carracci.
  • Devils saw away at a colic sufferer's abdomen. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, 1833.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is in such pain that he pulls the tooth-drawer's wig off. Coloured etching after J. Gillray (?).
  • 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.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw while he is seated and conscious, blood flows to the floor. Woodcut, 1531.
  • Christ lies on the ground, beaten and mocked. Etching by L. Simonneau after himself.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a grimacing patient. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly.
  • A bird's beak cuts a woman's hand; representing the sense of touch and the fact that it persists longer (in pain) than the other senses. Engraving, 16--.
  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint by J. Wilson after J. Harris the elder.