| 98. An antique bandage roller by Codman & Shurtleff, Boston. The apparatus attaches to a table edge. |
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| 99. A c. 1880s sterling silver paper knife (may also have been used as a book mark and page turner) beautifully hand-engraved: William E. Milbank, M.D. // "I have not so many friends that I shall grow confused among the number and forget my best one." Nicholas Nickleby. Dr. Milbank (1848-1928), of Albany, New York, was a New York Health Commissioner in the 1880s. The Charles Dickens quote appears in Chapter 22 of Nicholas Nickleby. The silver piece is 10" long is stamped with the silver maker Gorham's marks. |
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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 very early capital amputation saw from Jacobean England. The saw is impressed with the H mark of Robert Hobbs, London, fl. c. 1606-1621. Instruments by Hobbs are believed to be the earliest extant English maker-marked surgical instruments. A nearly identical saw is illustrated in John Woodall, The Surgeon's Mate, 1639. This is precisely the saw that one would expect to have been used by Giles Heale, a member of the Barber-Surgeon's Company and the ship's surgeon on the Mayflower, and by Samuel Fuller, the surgeon of Plymouth Colony. 25" long. |
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102. A rare type c. 1820 English antique bloodletting spring lancet with original barrel-shaped case. The blade depth is adjusted by turning the large conical nut to the rear and it is cocked by pulling on the nut. A lever trigger to fire the blade is to the side of the lancet. The brass retains its handsome lacquer 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. SOLD |
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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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