| 98. An antique bandage roller by Codman & Shurtleff, Boston. The apparatus attaches to a table edge. |
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| 99. A very scarce c. 1780 Wedgwood memorial portrait of Dr. John Fothergill (1712-1780), English physician, botanist, naturalist, a founder of the Medical Library at Pennsylvania Hospital, and a close friend of Benjamin Franklin and Josiah Wedgwood. Dr. Fothergill was in the forefront in the study of diphtheria, migraines, trigeminal neuralgia (Fothergill's disease), and of angina pectoris...recognizing its connection to restriction of the arteries. In 1744, he wrote about the use of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in reviving the apparently dead (drowned). Upon Fothergill's death, his extensive seashell, coral, and insect collection, in part gathered by Sydney Parkinson on Captain Cook's first voyage, was purchased by Dr. William Hunter. Franklin, with whom, in 1774, Fothergill cooperated in an attempt to avert the split between Parliament and the American Colonies, remarked at his passing, I think a worthier man never lived. For besides his constant readiness to serve his Friends, he was always projecting something for the Good of his Country and of Mankind in general. Gilbert Stuart, in 1781, painted a posthumous portrait of Fothergill, who, as a Quaker, would not sit for the artist. The painting is now in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The back of this old jasper ware cameo image is impressed with Dr. Fothergill's name and with the Wedgwood mark of c. 1780. A second example of this Fothergill likeness is in the Wellcome Institute collection. See Crellin, p. 289. fig. 479. SOLD |
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| 100. A silver antique bloodletting lancet case by William Reynolds and hallmarked for London 1835. The etui was made to hold two thumb lancets, and the silver-work is of very high quality with wonderful hand-engraved decoration. |
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| 101. A fine 1870's plaster phrenology bust by A.L. Vago, London. The plaster is also embossed with Vago's name and the date 1860. All the original paper labels are present, as is an advertisement on the back dated 1871. 15.5 cm high. |
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102. A superb American antique bloodletting solid silver spring lancet with its original fitted slipcase. The lancet was presented to Dr. Daniel S. Shade from his preceptors Drs. Keeler & Groff. Shade graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1856. The interior cover plate has a beautiful blued finish. SOLD |
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| 103. A rare c. 1780 medical leather bulb with brass stopcock in a remarkable state of preservation. The pump had many uses, including creating a vacuum in a bloodletting cup, breast milk reliever, and cannula drain. The exact suction and infusion instrument is reproduced in the Benjamin Bell's System of Surgery, published in 1782, and in the Savigny catalogue of the early 1790s. Note the distinctive flower four-petal incised decorative work to the leather of this artifact and in the illustration from Savigny. |
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| 104. An attractive 18th century hand-engraved copperplate print of three tourniquets. 11.5 cm x 20.5 cm |
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| 105. A Victorian antique straight razor by C. Asprey, New Bond Street, London. The scales are ivory. |
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