| 74. A fine and large solid silver Practical Materia Medica award medal presented by William Craig, M.D., F.R.S.E., Lecturer, to Charles Horace Andrews for the Session of 1890. The other side of the medal has a deeply stamped coat–of-arms and motto of the School of Medicine, Surgeon’s Hall, Edinburgh. A silver neck chain is attached, though not shown here. | 
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| 75. An attractive 1950s twelve-inch tall hand-blown clear glass display mixing beaker which is boldly wheel-engraved: CAGLE REXALL DRUGS / HANNIBAL, MISSOURI. Stars are also engraved about the legend. The photo shows Carol Cagle in front of his drug store. Cagle was in business from 1952 to 1965. | 
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| 76. A c. 1910 Ombrédanne ether inhaler by Collin, Paris. SOLD |
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| 77. A fine c. 1819 antique monaural Laennec stethoscope as initially designed by the inventor of this the first stethoscope, René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826). This first model example uses male/female threads to hold the two main cylinders together. This is a very rare feature and is illustrated in Laennec's introductory treatise De l’Auscultation Médiate ou Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur, of 1819, and only is found in the earliest Laennec stethoscopes themselves. Another early feature is the unadorned appearance of the pieces. (By the mid-1820s, the cylinders were made with lathed or inset decorative rings near the outside ends of the two cylinders.) It is thought that these early straightforward stethoscopes were turned by Laennec himself and given by him to important medical colleagues as a way to promote his book and the use of the stethoscope. The wood and brass plug insert, used to hear the heart and sounds in the throat, holds correctly and the screw connection works well. (Sometimes this is not the case as the parts of wood shrink or warp to differing degrees and will not now fit together.) The antique instrument has a handsome patina and shows the age and wear consistent with its life of over 180 years. This is the short version of the first model Laennec stethoscope and it measures approximately 20.5 cm long with a 3.3 cm diameter. The plug cone is 5.5 cm long. SOLD |
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78. A c. 1920 sterling silver antique medicine spoon by Tiffany & Co., New York. The handle is engraved: BATHROOM.
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| 79. An antique marble bust of Hippocrates of Kos (ca. 460 BC to ca. 370 BC), the Greek father of Western medicine. The part-bust is life-size. |
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| 80. A fine minor surgery set by W.F. Ford and Co., New York, the three-part wallet in red leather with nice gilding decoration. The set includes 14 pieces, including a porcelain tipped Nelaton's bullet probe. A few of the instruments are replacements. The wonderful feature of the set is a large silver presentation plate affixed to the closing flap. The engraved plaque reads: Presented to W.J.G. Dawson MD House Phys[icia]n / Lunatic Asylum N.Y. March 31st, 1868. / By the Comm[issione]rs of Public Charities & Correc[tio]n / Isaac Bell Jas. B. Nicholson O.W. Brennan / Jas. Bowen. The jeweler engraving is of the highest quality. William Joseph Gremley Dawson (1846-1918) was born in Canada and got his medical degree from the University of New York in 1867. He moved to California and had practices in San Francisco, St Helena, and Eldridge. He was affiliated with the California Home for Feebleminded Children, and died in Eldridge in 1918. Interestingly, Edmonson's directory includes a cased Cammann stethoscope by Ford that has a plaque with a presentation to another doctor by the same four commissioners and dated six months later in 1868! See Edmonson, p. 82, fig. 103. |
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| 81. A pair of antique silver-framed glasses with the inside left temple stamped: NOEL'S PAT[ENT] 11 JAN 1859. The left inside temple is further stamped: A I & C D. The original lenses are present. |  |
