| 58. A fine c. 1880 antique tonsil guillotine with a beautifully fluted ebony grip and an unusual mechanical action. |  |
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59. A turned-wood mallet with attached brass plaque engraved: Glasgow Royal Infirmary / Wood from the Lister Ward / Built, 1859. Demolished, 1924. 6.5" tall. This a fine relic of Joseph Lister's (1827-1912) Ward 24, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, the locus primus of aseptic surgery. It was Lister who first recognized that bacteria entering wounds were causing putrefaction, and he employed carbolic acid as a preventative during and after surgery. For a biography of Lord Lister (1827-1912), please see this link.
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60. A hand-illustrated Ottoman Turk scene of a minor surgery. The doctor holds the patient's left wrist and is possibly checking the pulse or for a break. (No wound is apparent.) Note the instruments and containers spread out in the foreground.
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61. An autographed photograph of Christian Barnard, M.D. (1922-2001). Dr. Barnard was a noted heart surgeon from South Africa. He performed the first human heart transplant, in 1967, and made medical history. The signature is quite clear and the black-and-white photo measures 5" x 7". |
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62. A c. 1860 tintype of William Johnson Turner, Smyth County, Virginia. Turner was involved with medicine in the war, working as a Confederate hospital steward in Richmond and Chattanooga, and he served as a druggist at Petersburg for a period in 1864. He took medical classes at the Medical College of Virginia that same year. Turner originally enlisted in the famous "Bloody Half Hundred" - the 50th Virginia Infantry - when it was assembled at Wytheville as part of Gen. Floyd's Brigade. Several companies then became part of the 8th Virginia Cavalry, CSA, which has been called one of the "fightingest" units of the entire Confederate army.
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| 63. A very fine tintype of a Union surgeon in full regalia. Note that he is holding a Model 1840 Medical Staff sword upright and is wearing a sash, which has been tinted-green...the Medical Department branch color, across his chest to indicate that he is the officer-of-the-day. The original Union Case manufacturer Littlefield, Parsons & Co. label is present, and upon this label is written in red ink: Dr. A.B. Taylor / Knoxville / Tenn. Assistant Surgeon A.B. Taylor served in the 12th Indiana Infantry during the Civil War, and, late in 1863, this unit was in Knoxville. SOLD |
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| 64. A rare Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914) calipers that were used to measure the head for criminal identification. The scale on the Bertillon's system anthropometric calipers measures from 12 to 22 cm. The record of measurements was kept on a special card with photographs of the subject, and the record shown here is that of Bertillon, himself. For more details on the Bertillonage system and Bertillon instruments, please click here. In passing, Sherlock Holmes mentions Bertillon in The Naval Treaty (1893), and his name also appears early in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). |
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| 65. A detailed anatomical model of the human head in mid-section. The life-size model is by Auzoux, Paris, and so marked. It is in excellent condition and is mounted on a later base. |
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