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Dentistry caricature, 18th century
Dentistry caricature. 18th-century artwork with the Italian title Il Cavadenti (The Toothpuller). At left, a dentist, bracing himself against a crouching assistant, is using steel pliers to pull a patients tooth. Before the development of anaesthetics, tooth extraction was extremely painful. The woman being comforted at right has fainted at the sight and sounds of the scene. This artwork is a watercolour, artist unknown
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Media ID 9198711
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1700s 18th Century Ache Assistant Caricature Clinic Comforting Crouching Dental Dental Caries Dentist Dentistry Discomfort Extracting Extraction Family Father Instrument Italian Italy Mother Operation Pain Painful Patient Pliers Procedure Pull Pulled Pulling Removal Removed Removing Seated Sitting Sore Steel Surgery Surgical Teeth Tool Tooth Tooth Decay Toothache Treatment Watercolour Wife Braced Bracing Bystander Bystanders Condition Dental Surgery Disorder Faint Fainted Fainting
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