title: Eminent Victorian dentistry. 1. John Ruskin and the patient experience of Victorian dentistry. Ruskin's dentist, Alfred James Woodhouse.
abstract: This paper describes the relationship between John Ruskin [1819-1900] the Victorian artist, writer, and critic, and Alfred James Woodhouse [1824-1906], the dentist who cared for him from 1866 to 1883. Although Ruskin was perhaps not quite as eccentric as a recent television series has portrayed him, he was certainly not conventional, and the relationship with his dentist was also not entirely conventional.
authors.affiliation: Bulls Mill House, Hertford, SG14 3NS.
authors.forename: M G H
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Bishop
mesh_terms: D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D004739:England; D006665:History of Dentistry; D049672:History, 19th Century