Bishop MG, Gelbier S, Gibbons D. Ethics--dentistry and tooth-drawing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England. Evidence of provision at all levels of society.
Br Dent J 2001;
191:575-80. [PMID:
11767860 DOI:
10.1038/sj.bdj.4801237]
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Abstract
The popularity of caricature at the end of the eighteenth century allows a researcher to observe the social as well as the technical side of dentistry as it was then available throughout the kingdom. The value of these caricatures is further enhanced by the unconscious inclusion of everyday objects which a narrative account would not think it worthwhile including, even if such narrative account had existed.
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