| 225. A c. 1820 antique barber-surgeon's bowl. |
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| 226. A
dated 1917 World War I U.S.
Army surgeon's uniform that belonged to
Dr. Francis A. Stiles. |
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| 227. A c. 1945 Bulova one-button chronometer as used by doctor's to determine a pulse rate. The control for setting, starting, and stopping the sweeping second hand is built within the crown. The handsome 10K rolled-gold case has horn-shaped lugs, a popular style in the 1940s. |
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| 228. A 1935 Royal Lifesaving Society silver medal, Award of Merit. Well made in typical high-quality, British silversmith style and marked. One side depicts a rescue and the other side shows Victory with a garland and is neatly engraved: H. E. Wilson 1935. |
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229. A c. 1880 Tobold’s concealed laryngeal trocar lancet. See Tiemann 1889, p. 267, fig. 2487. |
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230. A Civil War date lecture ticket from the Medical College of Virginia for the student W.M. McCully, Session 1863-64, to attend the lecture class Theory and Practice of Medicine given by David H. Tucker, M.D. Dr. Tucker was an 1836 grad of MCV and had a second medical degree from the U of PA. He also served as a surgeon at Camp Winder Hospital, a Confederate States of America military hospital in Richmond. Dr. Tucker's autograph is on the back of the card. There is no record of McCully having graduated from MCV. SOLD |
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| 231. An antique 1950s doctor cookie jar with base marked Japan. The doctor is very plump (the better to hold lots of cookies) and stands 13" high. Could this have inspired some child to go into medicine? |
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| 232. A fine pair of c. 1890 antique clinical thermometers by F. Darton, London, in their original leather case. The exquisite set includes an axilla (bent) and an oral thermometer. |
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