Name/Title
microscopeEntry/Object ID
2017.016.001Description
Microscope. Brass and glass. Has two rotating lenses. Mirror at bottom pivots to reflect up through slide. Manufactured by Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, N.Y. Sold by Chas. Lentz & Sons, Philadelphia, P.A. Serial number 27128 [1897]. 13” h x 4.25” w x 5.75” d. c. 1890.Context
Wednell Holmes returned from his medical studies in Paris with one such instrument. He started America's first course in microscopy at Harvard University. In 1847, as Professor of Anatomy and Physiology he used an attic space at the campus as the “Microscope Room,” where students could examine human tissue.
This particular microscope was manufactured by Bausch & Lomb c. 1890 and belonged to Dr. Lewis Woodward (187 –1969). Woodward graduated from Western Maryland College and then got his medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia in 1899. Likely purchased while he was a medical student, this microscope reflects the scientific training that shaped Dr. Woodward’s career. He practiced in Westminster for decades, first on Main Street and later at Park Avenue, serving both individual patients and the wider community. As Registrar of Births and Deaths for Carroll County and a leader in state medical organizations, he helped bring increasingly professionalized, record-based medicine to the region.Acquisition
Accession
2017.016Source or Donor
Woodward-Applefeld, CelesteAcquisition Method
GiftExhibition
Main Street at Work: Merchants and Medicine in Carroll CountyGeneral Notes
Note
Belonged to donor’s grandfather, Dr. Lewis Woodward (b. 18 May 1878 – d. 16 November 1969). Woodward graduated from Western Maryland College and then got his medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia in 1899. Microscope was probably purchased while he was a medical student. He practiced in Westminster, first at 31 W. Main St. untile 1928 and then at 1 Park Ave. (Belle Grove Square). Woodward served as Registrar of Births and Deaths for Carroll County, was consulting physician for Western Maryland College, was president of the Carroll County Medical Society (1911-12), vice-president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland (1932-33). He married Phoebe Helen Neidig 28 April 1903. They had 4 sons: William Neidig, Lewis Klair, Jr., John Roop, and Theodor Englar. see Carroll County Physicians, p.59.
