How does it feel to be powerless in the face of such bastardry? And not a single moral outcry from the mainstream media in the allegedly enlightened western democracies.

Uncle Cohen’s view of late 19th-century dentistry (sorry, pic is a bit warped because of book’s tight spine). From OUT OF WORK (1888) by Margaret Harkness, writing as “John Law” (republished 1990 by Merlin Press).

Last section of Derek Walcott’s “The Fortunate Traveller”, the title poem from his 1982 volume: