Ever wonder what people used to think of the dentist?
The new book Open Wide! A Series of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Caricatures on Dentistry collects old-time dentistry-related cartoons.
Here’s what the publisher has to say:
“The caricatures you will find illustrated within reflect life in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Brutal, painful and usually short; but leavened with a large dose of that peculiarly Georgian style of humour, which was gloriously grotesque and bawdy. Today dentistry prints are notoriously rare and expensive and are eagerly sought after. As far as we are aware, a volume of cartoons dedicated to the profession of dentistry has never been published before.”
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