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Victorian scrap - dentist pulling a tooth. late 19th century
Consequences, illustration by William Heath RobinsonConsequences -- How the thoughtlessness of a butterfly seriously affected a bishops corn, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C
William Tell, Junr. by George StuddyBonzo suffers from his masters new craze for freak golf. Poor Bonzo gets whacked on the head with a golf club when his owner decides to use his nose instead of a tee on the green
Gout (Bunbury)No need for the sufferer from GOUT to wait till he gets to Hell - the devil gives him a foretaste of the torments that await him
A simple device for removing a wartContrary to the title of this picture, a complicated and convoluted machine to help a sufferer remove a wart from his head
Ellimans embrocationColour advertisement from 1914 for Ellimans Embrocation showing a hunting scene. Ellimans was a well-known remedy for easing joint pain with formulae for both horses and humans
Gout Devil Bites 1799A little devil sinks his teeth into the swollen foot of a gout sufferer
Italian dentist - NaplesPostcard entitled Neopolitan Customs ! An elderly lady about to have one of her teeth removed courtesy of the dentist and his rather serious-looking pair of pliers!! Date: circa 1910
Castration 17th CenturyA fearful patient is restrained on a low couch and castrated
The Pain-Proof Man & Captain Ringman Jack - Ripley sArthur Plumhoff The Human Pincushion - The Pain-Proof Man (left) and Captain Ringman Jack, who lifted weights through holes through his breasts
Ethiopia / Cartoon / ItalyFrench comment on Ethiopian defeat of Italy - Italy receives a poke in the eye from a long split bread or " pain fendu
Barber-Surgeon at WorkA barber-surgeon treating a patient
Comic postcard, Plump woman sitting on man on beach Date: 20th century
History of Spain. Death of Charles II of Spain (1661-1700)Death of Charles II of Spain (1661-1700). Official days of mourning in the city of Barcelona. Tears of Love, shed by the eminent City of Barcelona
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Hold your head highVietnamese Patriotic Poster - Channel the pain in your soul and hold your head high Date: circa mid-1970s
RMS Lusitania - handwritten letter on printed stationeryRMS Lusitania - letter written on board the Lusitania by Stewardess Ann Roberts on the outward leg of the journey that would culminate in the loss of the Lusitania
Beheading of St John the Baptist, ca. 1645, by Matthias StomMatthias Stom (ca.1600-h.1650). Dutch painter. The beheading of St John the Baptist, ca.1645, Oil on canvas. National Museum of Fine Arts. Valletta. Malta. Date: 2019
The Descent from the Cross, by Maarten de Vos (1532-1603)Maarten de Vos (1532-1603). Flemish painter. The Descent from the Cross. San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Madrid. Spain. Date: 2019
Caricature illustration of toothache cure, by Heath Robinson. Showing prehistoric man with string tied to tooth and tree stump, firing bow and arrow from top of a cliff
Tryptich of the Virgin. The Pieta. By Rogier van der WeydenRogier van der Weyden (1400-1464). Flemish painter. Triptych of the Virgin. The Pieta (central table). Virgin Mary cradling dead body of Jesus with Saint John (left)
Comic postcard, Just thawed out Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Doctor and patient - with a reference to the newly introduced heavier brass threepenny coin (the older, silver ones were lighter and smaller) Date: circa late 1930s
Comic postcard, Middle aged couple in bed Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Boy swearing in front of girl Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Man, boy and starfish on the beach Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Plump couple on the beach Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Large woman falling off a cliff onto a man paddling in the sea Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Man swearing in front of parrot Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Schoolboy and military man - practical joke Date: early 20th century
Fire walker in trance Natal south Africa c. 1920Fire walker Natal South Africa c.1920 - man in a trance with 500 pins being inserted in his skin
A German Fakir - man undergoing extreme accupunctureA German Fakir - man undergoing extreme acupuncture through his neck and tongue - c.1920s
Comic postcard, The MacGregors Gathering Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Plump soldier and two boys Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Woman with children Date: circa 1918
Allotment studies by G. E. StuddyNo. I. - Back to the land and what it fills like! To tackle food shortages, people were given plots to grow their own vegetables, in this cartoon a man is in agonising back pain
Tired and drunken man at a raucous dinner party with foxhunters. Miseries of Social Life. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed
Two Regency gentlemen about to fight a duel with pistols. One expecting the magistrates and Bow Street officers to appear. More Miseries
Visiting gentlemen refused entry to a house by a servant. The Inflexible Porter. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed by Henry Bunbury
Being nervous and cross-examined by Mr. GarrowBeing nervous and cross-examined by lawyer Mr. Garrow in court. More Miseries. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed
Dental clinic in Paris, 1892Dental clinic in Paris, France, 1892. Date: 1892
Cartoon, John Bull with William Gladstone as dentistCartoon, John Bull with William Gladstone as a dentist who has just extracted an eleven million pound tooth - And this is what you call painless dentistry, is it, William? 1885
Advert, Pains Fireworks. 1927
Use of anaesthetics in dentistry, Paris, France 1885Use of anaesthetics in dentistry, Dental School, Odontotechnical Institute, Paris, France. Date: 1885
Burmese advert in Chinese for Tiger Headache CureBurmese advert for Tiger Trademark Headache Cure - Take immediately for headache and tooth for a fast cure. Produced by Eng Aun Tong (Yong An) in Rangoon Burma (Yangon)
The Dentist by J M Molenaer. 1649
School Nurse - People You See. From Teddy Bear (15 January 1966). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1966
Fireworks display, Dusseldorf Exhibition, GermanyFireworks display and illuminations by Pain during an Arts and Horticultural Exhibition, Dusseldorf, Germany. Date: 1904
Dogs tail painfully run over by a carSorry, I have a tail - Oh Mother! What a catastrophy! 1936