At top are three scenes of the unavoidable causes of dental appointment delays: a man with a terrible toothache asks to be seen; a woman faints in the dental chair and needs time to recover; a man finds the dental drill so painful that he asks the den...
Alternative Title:
Waits are prolonged because...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dentistry, Dental offices, Tardiness, Medical appointments and schedules, Health care personnel, Sick persons, Toothaches, Waiting rooms, and Dental equipment & supplies
"A fashionable dentist is extracting the teeth of the poor in order to insert 'live teeth' immediately into the jaws of his patients. In the centre a young chimney-sweep sits in an arm-chair, over the back of which the dentist leans, holding the boy's...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1787 by J. Harris, No. 37 Dean St., Soho
Subject (Topic):
Dentistry, Teeth, Extraction, Donation of organs, tissues, etc, Quacks and quackery, Poor persons, Chimney sweeps, Pain, Dental equipment & supplies, Chairs, and Signs (Notices)
