Medal - James Morison Death; white metal

Features

Location	United Kingdom
Queen	Victoria (1837-1901)
Type	Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Year	1840
Composition	Pewter
Weight	128.1 g
Diameter	66.8 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Number	N# 436707
References	BHM# 1964 Laurence Brown. British Historical Medals. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (3 volumes). , Eimer# 1341 Christopher Eimer. British Commemorative Medals and their Values. London, United Kingdom (2 volumes). , Slg. Brettauer# 791 Josef Brettauer, Eduard Holzmair; 1937. Medicina in nummis: Sammlung Dr. Josef Brettauer. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria. , Storer MiN# 2528 Horatio Robinson Storer, Malcolm Storer (ed.); 1931. Medicina in nummis: A descriptive list of the coins, medals, jetons relating to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences. Self-published, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Commemorative issue

Death of James Morison

Obverse

Bust left

Script: Latin

Lettering:
JAMES MORISON THE HYGEIST
BORN MDCCLXX.DIED MDCCCXL
T.R. PINCHES. LONDON

Reverse

Legend

Script: Latin

Lettering:
JAMES MORISON THE HYGEIST
PROCLAIMED
FIRST
THAT THE VITAL
PRINCIPLE IS IN THE BLOOD
SECOND
THAT ALL DISEASES
ARISE FROM IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD
THIRD
THAT SUCH IMPURITY CAN ONLY BE ERADICATED
BY A PURGATIVE SUCH AS
THE VEGETABLE UNIVERSAL MEDICINE OF THE
BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH LONDON
FOURTH
THAT THE DEADLY POISONS USED AS
MEDICINES BY THE DOCTORS ARE
TOTALLY UNNECESSARY IN
THE CURE OF DISEASES

Mint

John Pinches Medallist Ltd, London, United Kingdom (1840-1980)

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1840)

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