Book Review Text-Book on Diseases of the Heart . By Graham Steel, M.D., F.R.C.P., Lecturer on Diseases of the Heart in the University of Manchester; Senior Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary. With an appendix on "The Volume of Blood in Relation to Heart Disease," by J. Lorrain Smith, M.A., M.D., Professor of Pathology in the University of Manchester. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1907.

Miss Davison was a medical artist at the Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) and the University of Manchester from around 1918 until her retirement in 1957. During her long career she illustrated books and scientific papers on anthropology, anatomy and surgery, however, it’s her work for neurosurgeon Geoffrey Jefferson during the 1930s–1950s that she is best remembered.

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John Hatton’s manuscript record of the surgical and pathological lectures given by Joseph Jordan, FRCS, in 1837–1838

Journal of Medical Biography ◽

10.1177/0967772019866949 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 096777201986694

Author(s):

Peter D Mohr

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Medical School ◽

Royal Infirmary ◽

Valuable Insight ◽

Manchester Royal Infirmary ◽

Teaching Anatomy ◽

Set Up ◽

The University ◽

University Of Manchester ◽

Insight Into

John Hatton, LSA MRCS FRCS MD (1817–1871), was apprenticed from 1833 to Joseph Jordan, MRCS FRCS (1787–1873), a well-known Manchester surgeon. Jordan, who had been teaching anatomy since 1814, closed his Mount Street Medical School in 1834 and was elected as surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1835. He continued to lecture on surgery and surgical pathology at the Infirmary, and sometimes at the Pine Street Medical School run by Thomas Turner, LSA FRCS (1793–1873). During 1837–38 Hatton transcribed and illustrated these lectures in a bound manuscript and also added notes and drawings in his personal copy of The Dublin Dissector. He gained his Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries (LSA) in 1836 and Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) in 1839 and set up in Manchester as surgeon from around 1840. This paper is based on three previously unrelated documents in the University of Manchester Archives: a handwritten catalogue of specimens in Jordan’s Anatomy Museum, Hatton’s annotated copy of The Dublin Dissector and his manuscript record of Jordan’s lectures. These documents provide a valuable insight into medical education during the 1830s.

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The Manchester Medical Students Gazette

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library ◽

10.7227/bjrl.96.2.6 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 96 (2) ◽

pp. 113-132

Author(s):

Peter D. Mohr

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Medical School ◽

Academic Life ◽

Royal Infirmary ◽

Valuable Resource ◽

Manchester Royal Infirmary ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

The University ◽

University Of Manchester

The Manchester Royal Infirmary Students Gazette (1898–99) and its subsequent titles, the Manchester Medical Students Gazette (1901–13), the Manchester University Medical School Gazette (1921–59), the Manchester Medical Gazette (1960–78) and Mediscope (1979–98), are a valuable resource for the history of the social and academic life of the medical students and the work of the Medical School at the University of Manchester. The volumes provide a record of advances in medical practice, historical articles and biographical details of staff. A recently completed database of the main articles and authors is a new resource to research these journals. This article sketches the history of the Gazette and outlines its value as a source for medical historians.

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Dorothy Davison (1890–1984): Manchester medical artist and her work for neurosurgeon Sir Geoffrey Jefferson (1886–1961)

Journal of Medical Biography ◽

10.1177/0967772014555292 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 130-137 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Peter D Mohr

Keyword(s):

Royal Infirmary ◽

Active Member ◽

Neurosurgical Department ◽

Illustrated Books ◽

Manchester Royal Infirmary ◽

Scientific Papers ◽

The University ◽

University Of Manchester

Miss Davison was a medical artist at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and the University of Manchester from around 1918 until her retirement in 1957. She illustrated books and scientific papers on anthropology, anatomy and surgery, and became well known for her striking pictures produced by the ‘Ross board technique’– a difficult process that she helped pioneer from the 1930s and which forms the bulk of the work she undertook for neurosurgeon Geoffrey Jefferson during the 1930s–1950s. His Neurosurgical Department became the main base for her work until his retirement in 1953. She was an active member of the Medical Artist Association (MAA) which she helped found in 1949.

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