This is a key. For over a hundred years it was standard equipment for pulling a rotten tooth — no anesthesia, sometimes in the middle of a crowded market square with a drummer playing to cover the screaming. From the pelican that came before it, to the Key of Garengeot, to the forceps and ether that finally ended its reign in the 1840s, here’s the full, stranger-than-fiction history of the tooth key.
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