When:
July 16, 2015 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2015-07-16T19:00:00+01:00
2015-07-16T20:30:00+01:00
Where:
The Old Operating Theatre Musuem 9a St Thomas's street
London SE1 9RY
UK
London SE1 9RY
UK
Cost:
£8/£6
Contact:
Bodysnatchers are back…with teeth! In the late 18th and early 19th century, a trip to the ‘dentist’ was a basic and painful experience and many mouths were were rotten and empty. However, a beautiful smile was still fashionable and desireable. With tooth transplantation being an experimental science at best, and sets of porcelain false teeth being wildly expensive, what could be the answer to the problem?
Assistant Curator Kirsty Chilton reveals how teeth taken from the mouths of the dead on the battlefields of the Penninsular or the burial grounds of London could be sold to dentists and turned into sets of false teeth, an opportunistic trade which could be worth a small fortune to a wise bodysnatcher…