| 158. A remarkable Auzoux anatomical model of the tongue, throat, larynx, and windpipe. An Auzoux listing of the 1880s shows a Gigantic Larynx (twelve inches long)... and, sold separately but ...capable of being adjusted to the larynx..., a ...Tongue in the same proportion... This papier-mâché model is 24 inches long overall, and it is a testament to the complexity of the best Auzoux écorché. Louis Thomas Jerôme Auzoux (1797-1880), a French anatomist and physician, saw the need for highly accurate anatomical models, as an alternative to cadaver study, and founded, in the 1820s, a company to make them. Due to the great care and attention to detail that went into their manufacture, hand-painted antique Auzoux papier-mâché models are prized. ECORCHE |
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| 159. A c. 1890 Aloe-type rectal speculum with ebony handle. |
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| 160. A c. 1955 group autographed photograph of Chevalier Jackson, M.D. (1865-1958) and his staff. an 1886 graduate of Jefferson medical College, Dr. Jackson became one of America's most renowned laryngologists. He is credited with the invention of an esophagus scope and a bronchoscope. He was on the faculty of Jefferson and the University of Pennsylvania. For additional details on the life and accomplishments of Dr. Jackson, please see jeffline.tju.edu/SML/archives/exhibits/notable_alumni/chevalier_jackson.html. |
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161. A c. 1930 antique clinical thermometer by Becton & Dickinson, Rutherford, New Jersey. The well-made silver case is marked STERLING. |
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| 162. A Sanborn Company and Hewlett Packard Rappaport Sprague binaural stethoscope set that dates to the early 1960s. The chestpiece is marked: RAPPAPORT / SPRAGUE / STETHOSCOPE // SANBORN / COMPANY / WALTHAM / MASS, U.S.A. The set includes a wallet marked HEWLETT / PACKARD / SANBORN / DIVISION, that holds four screw-on cups and two sets of additional earpieces. Hewlett Packard took-over the Sanborn Company, of Boston, in 1961 and changed its name to the Sanborn Division. While HP produced the Rappaport Sprague for the next 39 years, the Sanborn Company was the original maker following the design of Dr. Howard Sprague, a Boston cardiologist, and Maurice Rappaport, an electrical engineer and acoustics expert at Sanborn. This instrument is one of the first of the Rappaport Sprague stethoscopes to be sold by HP. The stethoscope is in mint and unused condition and is housed in its original cardboard box.
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| 163. An antique hard rubber laryngeal and posterior nares (nasal passages) syringe (douche). See Tiemann, p. 210, fig. 2182. |
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| 164. A c. 1850 antique fairing of newlyweds in bed. The piece is captioned: Shall we sleep first or how? The fairing was made for the English market by Conta & Boehme, in Possneck, Germany, and it bears the incised serial number 2859 from early in their first series. This wonderful commentary on Victorian sexual mores pokes fun at a proper and inexperienced couple's first night of marriage. |
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| 165. A set of electric illuminated rectal, vaginal, and urethral specula that were patented in 1899. |
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| 166. A c. 1860 antique emergency medical set by George Tiemann, 63 Chatham Street, New York. The first aid kit contains minor surgery instruments, one near miniature Petit/spiral tourniquet and one field tourniquet, bandages, isinglass, and bottles of chloroform and the stimulants brandy and spirits of hartshorn. A compartment beneath the minor surgery instruments holds suture and suturing needles. As Tiemann did not have a pharmacy, the filling of the bottles was given to the Hegeman, Chemist and Druggist, of New York City. To see a Hegeman advertisement from 1861, see the bottom of the second column at Harper's Weekly. The very rare compendium may have been made for military use, as it dates to the period of the American Civil War, the case has a sliding lock typical of military surgical sets, and the nature of the contents. Tiemann was located at 63 Chatham Street from c. 1833 to c. 1864. This dealer is not aware of any other example of this particular Tiemann set. |
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| 167. A very rare c. 1780 spanner for working the tension nut of an amputation saw blade. |
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