| 209. An unusual combination pocket syringe and bottle for treating venereal disease. It was patented in 1878 by Whitall Tatum and Company, Philadelphia. |
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| 210. A c. 1890 phototype of David Hayes Agnew, M.D. (1818-1892), renowned surgeon and chair of operative surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. The image is signed in pencil by Dr. Agnew. Dr. Agnew was immortalized in the 1889 painting The Agnew Clinic by Thomas Eakins. |
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| 211. Samuel David Gross, A Manual of Military Surgery. 186 pp. Philadelphia: Lippencourt, 1862. The cover of this Civil War surgical manual is embossed with the American eagle, flag, and shield. SOLD |
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| 212. A c. 1860 set of four antique bloodletting lancets by Weiss, London. These instruments are known as a thumb lancets due the manner in which they were held and pushed into a blood vessel. Tortoiseshell guards protect the blades. The antique bloodletting lancets come with their original four-partition leather case.
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| 213. A c. 1750 antique trepanning screw (tire-fond) with decorative flourishes. The antique neurosurgical instrument was used to lift depressed bone or to remove a recalcitrant trepanned bone disk from the skull. See Bennion, p. 34. SOLD |
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| 214. A c. 1890 antique magnifying lens in a silver mount with a cupid finial. |
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| 215. A c. 1830 high quality antique knife and fork set with ivory handles and original case. The set was made for an invalid (someone with swallowing difficulties) or a person without teeth, as the single knife incorporates three different blades for the fine cutting of food. The masticating knife can be taken apart for cleaning and is held together by a silver compression ring. Each knife blade is marked: JOSEPH RODGERS & SONS / CUTLERS TO HIS MAJESTY / No 6 NORFOLK STREET / SHEFFIELD. Rodgers received its royal warrant from King George IV in 1821. A similar but slightly later knife is pictured in Abel Domenech, Exhibition Knives of Joseph Rodgers & Sons - The Samuel Setian Collection, p. 155. |
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| 216. A large c. 1780 antique capital amputation saw marked: LICHTEN / BERGER. Lichtenberger was a surgical instrument maker in Strasbourg, France. The grip is ebony. 52 cm long. SOLD |
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