Box of microscope slides containing tissue samples
Maker
1. Ernest Edward Dunlop (b.1907, d.1993)
2. W.Ramsay (Surgical) Pty. Ltd. (estab. Circa 1900, closed 1962)
Date
Circa 1950
Description
Black cardboard box containing sixteen cardboard holders of six microscope slides. Each slide labelled with a handwritten number and description, and printed with 'Ernest E. Dunlop'. Label inside box side for W. Ramsey, Medical Agent.
Sir Ernest Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop (1907–1993), surgeon, army medical officer, war veterans’ advocate, and public figure.
Educated at College of Pharmacy, Melbourne, Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), University of Melbourne,Master of Science (MS), University of Melbourne.
Dunlop began a pharmacy apprenticeship after he finished high school. He worked with Benalla pharmacist, William McCall Say. Dunlop began his studies by distance education before moving to Melbourne in 1927. He studied at Victorian College of Pharmacy, now part of Monash University's Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Dunlop won a scholarship to study at Melbourne University in 1930. He graduated with first-class honours in medicine in 1934.
Dunlop continued to practise medicine after the war. He was attached to the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps until 1946 and worked in Tobruk, Palestine and Asia. On his return to Australia Dunlop entered private practice and was appointed honorary surgeon to out-patients, later in-patients, at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Elected a fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons in 1948, Dunlop worked as a consultant at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and Peter MacCallum Clinic during the 1950s and 1960s.
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