I just love that there was a period in time where things like this existed. I don't want to visit the circus dentist, but it's cool that this was a thing.
TIL, that Painless Parker was a street dentist that created the Parker Dental Circus, a traveling medicine show with his dental chair on a horse-drawn wagon while a band played. The band attracted large crowds and hid the moans and cries of patients who were given whiskey or a cocaine solution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painless_Parker
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