Zeiss stand IVa laboratory compound microscope
Date: circa 1891
Inventory Number: 1241
Classification: Microscope
Subject:
Maker: Carl Zeiss, Optische Werkstätte, Jena (1846 - 1904)
Maker: Carl Zeiss (company timeline) (founded 1846)
Maker: Ernst Leitz (company) (1849 - 1986)
Inventor: Ernst Abbe (1840 - 1905)
Owner: William T. Councilman (1854 - 1933)
Cultural Region:
Place of Origin:
Jena,
City of Use:
Dimensions:
microscope: 30.9 × 13 × 14.5 cm (12 3/16 × 5 1/8 × 5 11/16 in.)
case: 38.7 × 18.2 × 20.4 cm (15 1/4 × 7 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Accessories: objectives (4): Leitz 3, 7, 1/12 HI with canisters and Zeiss AA in DD canister; oculars (2): 3 and 3 H.M.S. 13,0; triple nosepiece; Abbe illuminator with iris; standing case
Bibliography:
No. 29 Carl Zeiss Optische Werkstätte Jena: Microscopes and Microscopical Accessories
Description:
This is a Zeiss laboratory compound microscope with stand IVa.
The body is mounted by an inclinable joint to two uprights and a heavy horseshoe-shaped base. The coarse adjustment is by rack and pinion on the body tube; fine focus is by a micrometer- screw knob on top of the post. A revolving, triple nosepiece is attached to the body. There are four objectives and objective canisters. Three objectives are by Ernst Leitz and a fourth is by Zeiss.
Beneath the square vulcanite stage is an Abbe condensor and a swing-out iris diaphragm. A plane-concave mirror is mounted on the same frame as these illuminators.
The stage, substage and base are blackened.
The two oculars are unsigned.
This microscope is stored in a standing wooden case with a brass handle.
The body is mounted by an inclinable joint to two uprights and a heavy horseshoe-shaped base. The coarse adjustment is by rack and pinion on the body tube; fine focus is by a micrometer- screw knob on top of the post. A revolving, triple nosepiece is attached to the body. There are four objectives and objective canisters. Three objectives are by Ernst Leitz and a fourth is by Zeiss.
Beneath the square vulcanite stage is an Abbe condensor and a swing-out iris diaphragm. A plane-concave mirror is mounted on the same frame as these illuminators.
The stage, substage and base are blackened.
The two oculars are unsigned.
This microscope is stored in a standing wooden case with a brass handle.
Signedon tube: Carl Zeiss / Jena
on objective AA: C. Zeiss
on objective canister DD: C. ZEISS / JENA
on objective 3 and its canister: E. LEITZ / WETZLAR [in achromat trademark]
on objective 7: E. Leitz / Wetzlar
in cursive on canister for objective 7: E. Leitz
on objective 1/12, oil immersion: Ernst Leitz Wetzlar
on canister for objective 1/12, oil immersion: E. LEITZ / WETZLAR [in achromat trademark]
on objective AA: C. Zeiss
on objective canister DD: C. ZEISS / JENA
on objective 3 and its canister: E. LEITZ / WETZLAR [in achromat trademark]
on objective 7: E. Leitz / Wetzlar
in cursive on canister for objective 7: E. Leitz
on objective 1/12, oil immersion: Ernst Leitz Wetzlar
on canister for objective 1/12, oil immersion: E. LEITZ / WETZLAR [in achromat trademark]
Inscribedon tube: No 19270
Historical AttributesThis microscope was used by Dr. William Thomas Councilman, grandfather of the donor.
William Thomas Councilman, M.D. (1854-1933) worked under William Welch at Johns Hopkins, and later became Shattuck Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School,1891-1922.
Councilman is famed for his thorough study and description of the disease he named "amoebic dysentery," and for describing the eosinophilic bodies in the liver (now known as Councilman bodies) that are pathognomonic signs for the diagnosis of yellow fever. He is also famous for discovering the germ that causes small pox.
William Thomas Councilman, M.D. (1854-1933) worked under William Welch at Johns Hopkins, and later became Shattuck Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School,1891-1922.
Councilman is famed for his thorough study and description of the disease he named "amoebic dysentery," and for describing the eosinophilic bodies in the liver (now known as Councilman bodies) that are pathognomonic signs for the diagnosis of yellow fever. He is also famous for discovering the germ that causes small pox.
Curatorial RemarksNote by David P. Wheatland: Dr. Councilman discovered the smallpox germ and "Councilman bodies" in yellow fever during the Panama canal digging.
Primary SourcesCarl Zeiss Optische Werkstätte Microscopes and Microscopical Accessories (Jena, 1891).
ProvenanceDr. William Thomas Councilman, Harvard Medical School