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Health and medicine
Hands up if you get really excited about going to the dentist because you love it SO MUCH and it’s even better than getting a new bike or winning a top-of-the-range computer.
Let’s have a quick count of hands. That’s one, two, three, four . . . oh, hang on. That’s nOnE! Zero hands. A complete absence of handy things.
That’s not surprising. While it might be necessary to go to the dentist and you should aLWAyS do it when you need to and dentists are GrEaT PEoPlE with lovely teeth, no one LoVeS going to get their teeth drilled, prodded, scraped or pulled out.
But if you think YoU’vE GoT iT BaD, at least you get to go to an actual dentist in a surgery with a proper chair and equipment and one of those big lights and pink stuff to slosh round your mouth afterwards.
In medieval times, if you wanted dental work done, you’d probably end up in a booth at a fAiR or market! Imagine going to your local fair and instead of going on the dodgems you get a tooth yanked out! Not as much fun, eh?
You can get candyfloss AFTER you´ve had those three teeth pulled out.
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Awww, muuuum!