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ALLEN, PROFESSOR SIR HARRY University of Melbourne Medical School Jubilee 1914.
Melbourne, Ford, 1914. Quarto, original blind-stamped and gilt cloth : a very good copy, with one plate detached and frayed at the fore-edge. With the signature of (Sir) Sydney Sunderland, and a number of pencilled marginalia, probably in his hand. ¶ Accompanying this is a worn copy of the Special Medical Supplement to 'Alma Mater' [A monthly periodical devoted to the promotion of Australian University Objects and Australian Literature], Volume III, No.6, September 1898, being the Brownless Memorial Supplement. This is a thirty-six-page tribute to the work of Dr. Anthony Brownless, Physician to the Melbourne Hospital, who was chiefly responsible for establishing the medical school in the University of Melbourne in 1862, after being invited in 1856 to draft details for a Faculty of Medicine within the University. He was, therefore, on a par with Sir Redmond Barry, who was invited at the same time to formulate a Faculty of Law . This copy of the supplement lacks the lower wrapper, and the upper is detached. Like the Jubilee History, it bears the signature of (Sir) Sydney Sunderland. Moreover, it has, loosely inserted, a remarkable original photographic print (88 x 119 mm.) of what is certainly the dissecting room of the medical school at the University of Melbourne. This is dated 1892 in pencil on verso, and shows a group of about a dozen undergraduates and academics around a cadaver in the early stages of dismemberment. Two of the students are wearing mortar-boards. Two others (probably academics) are smoking pipes. It is hard to be sure whether gloves are worn. A few of the assembly are showing signs of great merriment. Some of the twelve are identified on verso, and at least two of these occur in Allen's history as having graduated some six or seven years later. Nineteenth-century photographs of dissecting rooms in Australia are of great rarity. With the distinguished provenance of this item, that makes this a highly desirable piece of medical Australiana.
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