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Medical: Scotland, Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, a bronze award medal by Kirkwood & Son, arms and supporters, rev. wreath, named (Medicine, Peter Braid, 1900-01), 48mm (Storer 5864); University of Edinburgh, Pathological and Bacteriological Institute, Greenfield Medal, 1925, a bronze award by A. Drury, bust of William Smith Greenfield right, rev. oil lamp, named (1951, George Ernest Knight), 51mm (MJP p.213); Glasgow, The Incorporated Glasgow Dental Hospital, an oval bronze award medal, unsigned [by D. Cunninghame], arms, rev. wreath, named (Dental Pathology and Bacteriology, Winter Session 1924, Jean R. Forrest), 62 x 40mm (Brodie 608); Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the MacEwen Medal, 1924, a bronze award, unsigned, bust of William MacEwen right, rev. legend, named (John Gordon, 1929), 60mm [4]. About extremely fine and better (£60-80)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer.

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William Smith Greenfield (1846-1919), pathologist; Sir William MacEwen (1848-1924), often named as the greatest innovative surgeon ever to have graduated from the Glasgow School of Medicine, qualified as a surgeon in 1873 and specialised in brain and spine work