A 19th-Century Ross-type lacquered-brass compound monocular microscope,

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A 19th-Century Ross-type lacquered-brass compound monocular microscope,
signed ROSS LONDON 5302, with rack-and-pinion coarse focusing, fine adjustment, sub-stage condensor and rotating diaphragm plate, four objectives, and other items, in fitted mahogany case -- 12in. (30.5cm.) high

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Provenance

Professor Dame Sheila Sherlock F.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.E., F.R.A.C.P., Hon. F.R.C.C.P., Hon. F.R.C.P.I., Hon. F.A.C.P., Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine.

Lot Essay

This microscope was bought by Dame Sheila Sherlock in 1937 in Edinburgh, and was used by her whilst an undergraduate at Edinburgh University, and during her pioneering studies on the use of liver biopsy in the diagnosis of liver disease. The holder of many Honourary Doctorates worldwide, she was awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal of the Medical Society of London in 1983 and the Gold Medal of the British Medical Association in 1985. The lot is sold with a letter of provenance.

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