102846 | GERMANY. Dresden. Gilt silver Award Medal.

102846  |  GERMANY. Gilt silver Award Medal. Issued 1911 the International Health Exposition, held in Dresden from May–October 1911 (50mm, 63.19 g, 12h). By the Glaser & Sohn Workshop in Dresden.

 

HYGIENE, eye // INTER– / NATIONALE / HYGIENE– / AUSSTELLUNG / DRESDEN / 1911 in six lines. Edge: Plain. Optica et Visio in Nummis XIII.44 var. (gilt bronze). Mint State. Some slight toning scattered about.

 

Organized by Karl August Lingner, a German philanthropist and businessman, the International Health Exposition in 1911 was an expansion upon a similar, more local event which Lingner had overseen in 1903. Meant to inform and educate the public about advancements in health, the expo prominently featured visual representations of the human body, whereby transparent organs were displayed for the first time—anatomist Werner Spalteholz having derived a means of 'drenching' human tissue with liquids which possessed similar light refracting properties, thus allowing one to see within both skin and tissue.

 

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