Arbittier Museum of Medical History
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Featuring the Collections and Museum of Medical Antiques
by Collector & Preserver: Douglas Arbittier, MD, MBA
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Stain-glass skylight above the staircase
View from the front entrance |
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| Various views upper floor | Various views upper floor | |
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| Fireplace with 17th century fireback | View from lower level looking up towards 18th century tapestry | Seating area for presentations |
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| The grand staircase | 19th century German wax model of a pregnant woman | Cabinets by the staircase |
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| Dental and civil war bottle collection | Neurosurgical collection 18th-19th centuries | Diagnostic instrument cabinet |
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| 19th c. mother of pearl dental set | Cabinet of eye related antiques | Civil War surgical sets |
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| Benjamin Rush letter | Central cabinet with rarest items (ceiling dome seen in reflection) | Painting of neurosurgeon 18th c. |
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| Leech jars and surgical sets | The ophthalmological cabinet | Wax head model being trephined |
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 Set of miniature phrenological heads |
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Rare French clock ca 1820 showing Hygeia, Goddess of health and daughter of Aesklepius. The clock has many medical references including the snake, which is drinking from a cup of life. |
Set of apothecary scales by VW Brinkerhoff of New York ca. 1865. Also a patent model pill making machine from 1880 and two patent model bloodletting devices from the mid 19th century. |
Dental collection; Pharmacy collection; Diagnostic instrument collection
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