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The Middle Ages (116) : Travelling Dentist

The Middle Ages (116) : Travelling Dentist

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Mark Billiau.


Premium (World), region Antwerp, Belgium

The Middle Ages (116) : Travelling Dentist

This series is an attempt to illustrate how life was going on in the Middle Ages.

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This inclement looking man was a travelling dentist.

The middle ages was truly a period of suffering for those having toothaches. The most common treatment during that time was having a tooth brutally removed.

This tended to be done by a travelling dentist (with all kinds of cruel pliers and rusty hooks) and with no anaesthetic, unless you were drunk in advance….. :-))

Photographed at medieval festival of castle Sterckshof (Deurne, Belgium)

Comentarios 22

  • rolvin 14/01/2018 17:44

    Only good that the dental treatment has changed in the meantime ;)
    Very nice costume and well photographed
    BW Roland
  • Diana V. P. 13/01/2018 19:48

    Du machst mir Angst... muss am Montag und am Donnerstag zum Zahnarzt. Allerdings ist mein ZA etwas moderner ausgestattet. (Ich mag ihn trotzdem nicht!)
    Eine feines Portrait!!
    Liebe Grüße
    Diana
  • Brigitte Hoffmann 12/01/2018 17:31

    Ein "statze Mann" - du hast ihn hervorragend portraitiert.
    Salut Brigitte
  • Philomena Hammer 12/01/2018 14:46

    also den begegne ich mal lieber nicht :-)))) egal wie fein er aussieht :-)))
    LG
  • archiek 12/01/2018 4:30

    This guy has put a lot of work into his costume. Are those his tools at his belt? I would be interested in seeing his cruel pliers.
    Regards, Archie
  • Adele D. Oliver 11/01/2018 21:41

    a wonderful portrait of this dentist in his finery ... what a far cry from
    today's white-coated dentists .... however, this doc's expression is
    just a bit intimidating :-))
    warm regards,
    Adele
  • Angelika El. 11/01/2018 21:40

    Oh je - die waren ja nicht gerade für sanfte Methoden bekannt. Aber schmuck sieht er aus, der Dentist. Häufig haben auch "Bader" die Zähne gezogen... Eine ganz feine Reihe ist das!!! LG! a.
  • aline64 11/01/2018 20:35

    Il est superbe ce personnage une belle série de portraits
    Amicalement
  • Sigrun Pfeifer 11/01/2018 18:21

    Schick sieht er aus ! Gefällt mir ! LG Sigrun
  • Vitória Castelo Santos 11/01/2018 17:29

    I like this one too...very interesting indeed
    Vitoria
  • hans-jakob 11/01/2018 15:50

    Tolles Zahnarzt-Portrait!
    LG hans-jakob
  • Anita Jarzombek-Krauledies 11/01/2018 15:43

    Ein tolles Portrait! Sein Werkzeug ist beeindruckend:-)
    Viele Grüße Anita
  • Gisela Aul 11/01/2018 15:15

    ist sich seiner Rolle sehr bewusst
    lg. Gisela
  • Bernhard Kuhlmann 11/01/2018 13:17

    Mit seinem Hut begeistert er bestimmt die Frauenwelt ! lach
    Gruß Bernd
  • Sue Thompson 11/01/2018 10:55

    Not someone that I would like to have poking about in my mouth.
    An excellent portrait though .

    :))