- Dr Maitland Ramsay's surgical blades box
- ED.CS.2017.97
- John Weiss & Son Ltd box, containing surgical blades from several manufacturers. It belonged to Dr Andrew Maitland Ramsay (1859-1946) whilst he was an ophthalmologist at the Glasgow Eye Informary. Dr Ramsay was born in Glasgow and graduated from Glasgow University. Later he became an LL.D (honoris causa) of Glasgow University and a fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh. He trained as an ophthalmologist and his early graduate experience was obtained in the Western infirmary, Glasgow, and in the Glasgow Eye Infirmary. During this time, he published the Atlas of External Diseases of the Eye in 1897. In 1898, he was appointed Surgeon to the Ophthalmic Institution, the Eye Department of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. During the 1914-1918 war he served as Major, R.A.M.C (T.), being attached to the 3rd Scottish General Hospital as ophthalmic surgeon. Many honours and distinctions followed his career. He became president of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom in 1922, of the Glasgow Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society and of the Ophthalmological Section of the British Medical Association. He died in St. Andrews on the 20th of March 1946.
Height: Box 2.5 cm
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