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

 

Various views upper floor View from the front entrance Various views upper floor
Fireplace with 17th century fireback View from lower level looking up towards 18th century tapestry Seating area for presentations
The grand staircase 19th century German wax model of a pregnant woman Cabinets by the staircase
Dental and civil war bottle collection Neurosurgical collection 18th-19th centuries Diagnostic instrument cabinet
19th c. mother of pearl dental set Cabinet of eye related antiques Civil War surgical sets
Benjamin Rush letter Central cabinet with rarest items (ceiling dome seen in reflection) Painting of neurosurgeon 18th c.
Leech jars and surgical sets The ophthalmological cabinet Wax head model being trephined

 

 

The phrenological collection

Set of miniature phrenological heads

 

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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American Civil War Medicine & Surgical Antiques Index

 

Topical Index for American Civil War Surgical Antiques 

 

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Civil War Medical Collections    Sitemap for entire website 

 

Direct links to all medical & Civil War collections on this site           

American Surgical Sets:

Pre-Civil War:  1 | 2  -   Post-Civil War:  3  -  Civil War 1861-1865:  4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8   INDEX

Medical Text-Books:

1 | 1a | 2 | 2a | 3 | 3a | 4 | 4a | 5 | 5a | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9a | 10 | 11 | 12    INDEX

Surgeon General's Office Library printed catalogues: 1840 | 1864 | 1865
Medical Lecture Cards: 1a | 1b | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21    INDEX

Medical Faculty and Authors:

INDEX

Navy Surgeon Exams:

1863 Navy Surgeon Applicant Exams with Biographies   INDEX ONE | INDEX TWO

Surgeon CDVs, Images

Surgeon's Medical Service Swords, and Pistols

Army: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8    INDEX    

M.S. Surgeon Swords and Pistols:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4  INDEX

Navy: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8   

Hosp Dep't Bottles, Tins, 

U.S. Army Pannier:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

American Civil War Medicine & Surgical Antiques

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Featuring the Collections and Museum of Medical Antiques

by Collector & Preserver:   Douglas Arbittier, MD, MBA

 

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Last update: Thursday, July 18, 2024