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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 or  to call (217) 348-1009 for additional details and to place an order. Click on the thumbnails for enlargements and additional views.

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209.  A wishbone occlusive pessary marked: SOLID GOLD.  SOLD  

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210.   David Hayes Agnew, M.D. (1818-1892), renowned surgeon and chair of operative surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.   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.  

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212.   An interesting dated March 1863 four page letter from Lt. G.A. Carter, Co. F., Dunn’s Cavalry (37th Battalion Virginia Cavalry), Camp Dunkard, Salem, Virginia, to his brother in Hamptonville, North Carolina, in which he writes: I have been suffering a good deal with pain in my right shoulder and arm which is but little better at present.  I was bled but it gave little or no relief.  What is the cause of the pain I am not able to say.  Direct and personal references to bloodletting during the Civil War are exceedingly rare.  Dunn’s Cavalry saw service from August 1862 to April 1865 in western Virginia , East Tennessee , and in the Shenandoah Valley .  Company F. was made-up of men from North Carolina , including the Yadkin County area.  The original transmittal envelope is present. 

 

 

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213.   A Civil War CDV of Hector Sears, First Sergeant, 131st New York Regiment of Infantry.  Sears was wounded in action at Port Hudson on 17 May 1863 .  He received a compound communited shot fracture of the upper third of the left humerus.  M.D. Benedict, Surgeon of the 75th New York , removed the head and five-and-one-half inches of the shaft of the humerus.  The photograph shows Sears with shirt removed and the wounded arm exposed.  The case is described in The Medical & Surgical History, Part II, Vol. II, p. 560.   

 

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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. 1880 antique lithotomy scoop by Katsch, Munich, with ebony handle.  

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216.  A very rare c. 1835 antique minor surgery set by Peter Rose, New York.  The mother-of-pearl handles are exquisite. The calling card of Dr. Erasmus Darwin Hudson, Jr. (1843-1887), New York City, is attached to the lining of the lid.  SOLD

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