Alex Peck Antique Scientifica
Sale Catalogue
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Below is a listing of a few medical and scientific antiques that are currently for sale. Please feel free to send an e-mail for additional details and to place an order.
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| 82. A lecture ticket to attend classes on surgery and surgical anatomy at the Medical Institute of Baltimore for the academic year of 1851-52. The ticket was issued to James M. Clarke for the class taught by John R.W. Dunbar, M.D. The vignette features a cadaver on a table. SOLD | |
| 83. A c. 1900 Tiemann's pattern antique bullet forceps with locking mechanism. |
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| 84. A fine example of an antique doctor's watch with pulsations dial and chronograph functions. The c. 1952 movement, case, and dial are signed UNVER, which is a trademark of the watchmaker Universal Genève. To determine a pulse one would start the chronograph, count 30 pulsations, stop the chronograph, and a special dial allows one to directly read the number of pulsations per minute. All functions are in proper working order. | |
| 85. A very scarce c. 1800 ivory model eye. One of the most desirable ophthalmic and anatomical antiques. | |
| 86. A c. 1880 antique ear trumpet featured in the 1889 George Tiemann catalogue as: Fig. 2027.----German Silver Ear Trumpet. The antique hearing horn also appears in the Tiemann 1874 catalogue, Fig. 220. | |
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87. A fine c. 1870 antique Stokes monaural stethoscope with rubber ring percussor incorporated at the rim of the earplate. SOLD
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| 88. J. Julian Chisolm, A Manual of Military Surgery for the Use of Surgeons in the Confederate States Army. 2nd ed. 514 pp. Richmond: West & Johnson, 1862. Chisolm (1830-1903) was the foremost surgeon in the Confederacy, and his important military surgery manual went through three editions. This Civil War book is signed and dated by the original owner: T[homas] D. Stokes and June 7th 1862. Dr. Stokes (1817-1886) was born in Caswell Co, North Carolina, and practice and died in Danville, Virginia. He was an 1839 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. This Confederate manual is in fine condition and has its original binding, medical forms, and foldout. | |
| 89. A c. 1890 antique Goodell's uterine dilator made by Lentz, Philadelphia. The grips are ebony. |
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