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A Luciano Nezzo painting

Published on
April 17, 1998
Last updated
May 27, 2015

(Photograph) - Mouth piece: Luciano Nezzo's painting of a surgeon holding a dental key behind his back is part of an exhibition of 'Needles in Medical History' at the Wellcome Trust's History of Medicine Gallery.

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