14. “Dental work looks painful.” 1905.
Kirn Vintage Stock/Corbis/ Getty Images 15. A U.S. Army dentist extracts a tooth during the Spanish-American War. 1898.
Public Domain 16. Teeth of a man suffering from lamellar cataracts. 1898.
St Bartholomew’s Hospital Archives & Museum, Wellcome Images 17. A dentist pulls a man’s tooth with a string while making him recoil from a hot coal. 1810.
National Library of Medicine 18. A World War I dentist performs a tooth extraction.
Michael Kassube/Wikimedia Commons 19. A tooth-drawer with “lightness of hand” extracts a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Date unspecified.
Henry William/Wellcome Library, London 20. A tradesman sells secondhand dentures to those who cannot afford a visit to the dentist at Waterlooplein marketplace in Amsterdam. 1955.
Vagn Hansen/BIPs/Getty Images 21. U.S. Dentist Corp personnel working on patients. Date unspecified.
U.S. Signal Corp 22. Steel engraving showing a tooth extraction in progress. Date unspecified.
Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images 23. Comic photograph of Army officers cleaning their friend’s teeth. Circa World War II.
Wellcome Library, London 24. A man with long fangs has a tooth extracted by a dentist who is standing behind the patient. Date unspecified.
National Library of Medicine 25. An African dentist performs an operation on a patient that he is restraining with a wooden stick. Date unspecified.
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