Alex Peck Antique Scientifica
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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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15. A scarce antique dental forceps-key extractor marked: BAKER & RICE / PATENTED 1845 // J. FENTON / COLUMBUS [OHIO]. The instrument is a combination of the attributes of the an extracting forceps and a toothkey. Squeezing the grip controls the claw, an action which must be done with a finger to the claw on a regular toothkey. This dealer is aware of only one other example of a Baker and Rice patented dental forceps-key. John Fenton was active in Columbus from 1843 to 1863, as cited in Edmonson, p. 250. |
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| 16. A c. 1860s antique bloodletting scarificator by Leypoldt, Philadelphia. American made scarificators are rare. |
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17. A c. 1830 antique monaural Piorry stethoscope. The body is cedar and the earpiece and pleximeter are ivory. |
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18. A very rare c. 1880s albumen photograph of the shop of the surgical instrument maker Frederick Haslam at 83 Pulaski Street, Brooklyn. Edmonson shows no such photographs of nineteenth century surgical instrument maker's premises. See Edmonson, p. 211.
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19. A very rare Junod grande ventouse. Victor-Théodore Junod, Parisian physician, 1809-1881 Junod's boot botte de Junod dry cupping Traité théorique et pratique de l'hémospasie ; par le docteur T. Junod hemospasia |
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20. A c. 1858 ninth-plate daguerreotype of David Willis Cadwallader, M.D. (1837 - 1875). Dr Cadwallader was an 1858 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and he served in the 104th and 169th Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War. He practiced in Philadelphia and is a descendant of the well-known Cadwallader (Cadwalader) family of Pennsylvania. |
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