MEDICAL ANTIQUES ARCHIVES
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A c. 1820 Cuthbertson static electricity generator by Bancks, London. Note the adjustable spark gap on a glass column to the left.
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A rare cartes-de-visite of Reed Brockway Bontecou, Surgeon U.S. Volunteers, on the far right, with his staff and wives on horseback. Dr. Bontecou (1824-1907) is well known for the many photographs that he took of Civil War wounded while in charge of Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C. This unusual albumen outdoor photograph came from Bontecou’s personal Civil War collection of CDVs.
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C. 1880 uterine natural sponge dilating tents of three different sizes.
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A magnificent c.1800-1820 15 karat gold fob set with an intaglio cornelian seal of the profile bust of Asklepios with his staff and snake. The Hellenistic head of the Greek god of medicine is exceptionally well cut.
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A c. 1820 toothkey with Coromandel wood handle and two claws.
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A c. 1860 combination enema and stomach pump set by Evans, London. The enema pipes are ivory and the mouth gag is ebony.
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A c. 1880s photograph of Women's Ward 20, Bellevue Hospital, New York. An inked legend along the bottom identifies the hospital doctors and nurses in the room. The senior doctor is William H. Nammack, an 1886 graduate of Bellevue and House Physician, who holds a Cammann binaural stethoscope. Dr. Witter K. Tingley, who was on the House Staff in 1888, is taking notes on Dr. Nammack's observations of a patient in bed. Dr. Robert Alexander Murray, a specialist in the diseases of women and in obstetrics, is to the right and holding a book. The photo bears the mark of the Bellevue Photographing Department.
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An original c. 1890 antique photograph of Women's Ward 21, Bellevue Hospital, New York. Note the presentation case of gynecological instruments placed at the center of the ward. The image, which was taken by the Bellevue Photographic Department, measures 9 1/2 inches wide by 7 1/2 inches tall and is mounted on 14" x 11" cardboard.
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An exceedingly rare c. 1875 Van Huevel’s forceps-saw for dividing the head of the fetus from crown to base. The instrument is signed: A. AUBRY / Bt St. MICHEL, 6 / PARIS. This is thought to be an exhibition piece and the finest example known of this instrument. The fluted handles to the forceps, the adjustment screw, and the chain saw are made of ivory. Overall length is twenty-two inches. Jean-Baptiste Van Huevel (1802-1883), of Brussels, invented the forceps-scie in the 1840s. See Tiemann, 1889, p. 551, fig. 3818.
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An early nineteenth century Nuremberg microscope with the base maker branded: IM. The sliding optical tube is decorative paperboard and the fittings, including both lens caps, are stained fruitwood. The oak box-like base is similar to the Benjamin Martin microscope. The instrument is all-original, noting that the ocular lens is missing. See Turner, The Great Age of Microscopes, p. 205, fig. 211.
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A Civil War homemade medical box with a nineteenth century label stating: Charles E. White / carried ______(?) / War in 1862 /// Put up by his / mother E.G. White at Deerfield NH. Another later label in the same hand says: "Medicine Chest" / carried by / Charles E. White / in Civil War 1861&2. / Was at the Siege of Port Hudson. Inside are two bottles. One has a label that reads: Cherry B[ay]. / For Dysentery. Dose Teaspoonfull (sic) With Sugar Water. The second bottle’s label says: Paregoric / Dose Half Teaspoonfull (sic) / With Sugar Water / Two or Three times a day. A roll of bandage with a paper Linen label and a small package marked Pum[ice] Ball are also found in the pine box. Charles E. White served in the 15th New Hampshire.
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