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Plate 5: The Dentist

   
 
 


Publish'd as the Act Directs, June 1773

7 3/4"w x 5"h

               
   
 

From "The EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES in the Book of Heads entitled
HUMAN PASSIONS DELINEATED": PLATE 5

   
 

A

DOCTOR once much puzzl'd was
To find out ways and means,

How teeth to draw of ev'ry class,
   Without such wracking pains.

A packthread strong he ty'd in haste
   On tooth which sore did wring :
He pull'd, the patient follow'd fast,
   Like Tewzer in a string.

Continued on Plate 6

   
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