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Bifocal spectacles in case

ED.CS.2017.113.1

Case containig a pair of bifocal glasses which belonged to Dr Alexander Garrow (1876-1966). Dr Alexander Garrow was a senior ophthalmologist born in Morayshire, and he devoted his long life to the practice of medicine. Dr. Garrow worked at his profession for 67 years and he graduated at Glasgow University in 1898 at the age of 22. As a very young graduate he moved to South Africa with a medical unit led by the late Colonel Donald MacIntosh, Medical Superintendent of the Western Infirmary. When the WWI began, he joined the South African Medical Corps, moving to Cape Town. In 1923 he would be back in Glasgow and took over Dr A Maitland Ramsay as consultant in ophthalmology, establishing at 15 Woodside Place, Glasgow.