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We are always looking for new medical antiques to improve and add to the archives collection, the sale catalogue, and as topics for future articles

 Please let us know your interests and what you might have.

Alex Peck has been a student and dealer of medical, surgical, and dental antiques for over 20 years. 

 

Alex Peck actively buys important and high quality antique medical, surgical, bloodletting, and dental instruments, Revolutionary War and Civil War medical antiques, books, photographs, letters, personal medical-related objects of doctors, medical school memorabilia,  and other similar items.  

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MEDICAL ANTIQUES INTRODUCTION SERIES

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ANTIQUE ANATOMICAL MODELS

Auzoux models of the ear and throat.

 

ANESTHESIA ANTIQUES

Anesthesia antiques, such as inhalers and droppers, are discussed.

BLOODLETTING ANTIQUES

A fine and decorative c. 1830s Staffordshire leeches jar.

This site discusses the use of wet and dry cupping. Scarificators and cupping glasses are illustrated.

CIVIL WAR MEDICAL ANTIQUES

A fine presentation Civil War Medical Staff Sword Model 1840.

A Civil War medical box with period label stating: Charles E. White / carried / War in 1862 Put up by his / mother E.G. White at Deerfield NH.


A rare Civil War Confederate surgeon's coat from Virginia. The collar is faced in the black branch color of the Confederate medical department.

ENT ANTIQUES

Ear, nose, and throat instruments.

 

ANTIQUE ENEMAS, STOMACH PUMPS, AND DOUCHES

 

ANTIQUE AMPUTATION SETS

An 1850s amputation set by Max Wocher, Cincinnati.

 

ANTIQUE SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS

Antique Tourniquets: Petit's Spiral, USA Belt, Signoroni's, Mott's, and other unusual examples.

A selection of bow-framed amputation saws that span 250 years of surgical history are presented.

ANTIQUE SURGICAL SETS

An 1850s general operating set of amputation, trephining, ophthalmic, and urological instruments by George Tiemann, New York.

A fine 1860s amputation set with instruments marked: GEMRIG. The lift-out tray retains the paper label: MANUFACTURED / BY / J.H. GEMRIG / 109 South Eighth St. / PHILADELPHIA.

NEUROSURGICAL ANTIQUES

An 1840s trephine set and its various instruments are discussed.

OPHTHALMIC ANTIQUES

Cataract surgery sets.

Antique spectacles.

Antique ophthalmoscopes.

OBSTETRICAL ANTIQUES

Obstetric instruments are discussed and pictured.

GYNECOLOGICAL ANTIQUES

Antique specula in ivory, wood, pewter, and other materials.

ANTIQUE STETHOSCOPES

A c. 1820s Laennec monaural stethoscope turned in three parts from cedar. The insert cone of cedar and brass was used when listening to heart and voice sounds.

A c. 1880 Cammann binaural stethoscope with tension spring and screw adjustment.

PHRENOLOGY ANTIQUES

Phrenology busts and other phrenology antiques are discussed and pictured.

DENTAL ANTIQUES

Antique dental forceps, toothkeys, and pelicans are discussed.

LITHOTOMY ANTIQUES

Antique lithotomy and urological instruments.

ANTIQUE MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Daguerreotypes, albumens, CDVs, and tintypes of medical subjects.

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