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  • A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
  • Christ appears to Saint John the Evangelist with eyes aflame and a sword in his mouth. Etching by P. van der Borcht.
  • A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Engraving after J. Harris the elder.
  • An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity), they are surrounded by a group of people. Pencil drawing by P. Quast, 1645.
  • The circumcision of the Shechemites. Engraving by J. Muller (?).
  • A surgeon removing a plaster from the back of a man's hand. Oil painting after (?) Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a man's tooth and another tooth-drawer extracting a tooth in a carriage. Drypoint.
  • A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient, in a pharmacy. Pen drawing.
  • Ahasuerus (the Wandering Jew) man sits in hell among the shades, decrepit and tormented by Satan. Wood engraving by F.J. Gauchard after G. Doré, 1856.
  • A man performing a painful operation on a woman's tooth. Oil painting by Pieter van Laer, 16--.
  • A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
  • A boy cries in pain in his mother's arms while she tries to wash his cut foot, another child holds a broken glass in the background. Coloured line engraving by E. Smith after C. Chisholme.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented as an attacking demon. Coloured etching, 1835, after J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated grimacing patient, in the open air. Mezzotint.
  • A face expressing 'simple bodily pain' (left) and a face (right) expressing sadness. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • A male face expressing moderate pain. Crayon manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.
  • A boy with a cut finger is treated by his mother, while two other siblings hold him as he resists. Line engraving by F.S. Goulu after D. Wilkie.
  • A woman feeling the tip of an arrow with her finger; representing the sense of touch. Mezzotint by A. van Haecken after J. Amigoni.
  • A monkey (dressed as a human being) giving birth to a baby monkey aided by a midwife and two attendants. Reproduction of an engraving.
  • Head of a man expressing acute pain. Pencil drawing after Charles Le Brun.
  • A sick child grimaces as he takes his medication and gruel. Line engraving by W. Holl, 1838, after W.H. Hunt.
  • A surgeon applying medicine to a wound in the shoulder of a man in pain. Oil painting by Gerrit Lundens, 1649.