A Collection of Medical Medals

Miscellaneous, Xavier Bichat, 1802, a bronze medal by L. Dubour, 50mm (Brettauer 109); Sir Benjamin Brodie, a bronze medal, 1841, by W. Wyon, bust left, rev. Hygiea (Brettauer 163; BHM 2003; E 1359), 73mm; Samuel Hahnemann, 1829, a bronze medal by K.R. Krüger, 40mm (Brettauer 447); Association des Médecins de la Seine, Décretée d’Utilité Publique, 1851, a bronze medal by J.B.E. Farochon, bust of Mathéo Orfila left, rev. legend, 51mm (Brettauer 827; BDM II, 74; cf. DNW 53, 1121); Acadamy of Medicine, award medal (Institute Superieur de Vaccine - Dr. Teisseire, Paris) [5]. Penultimate stained, very fine and better, but Bichat a restrike (£60-90)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medical Medals.

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Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783-1862), surgeon; Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann (1755-1843), founder of homeopathy; Xavier Bichat (1771-1802), French anatomist, surgeon of the Hôtel Dieu, Paris and the so-called father of histiology; Mathéo José Bonaventure Orfila (1787-1853), born in Minorca, was the founding president of the Association des Médecins in 1833