Sir John Charnley Printed Collection
Date range: 1922-1969
Medium: Printed
Number of items: 63 items.
Sir John Charnley was a pioneering orthopaedic surgeon who trained at the Medical School of the Victoria University of Manchester and spent his early career at Salford Royal Hospital and Manchester Royal Infirmary. It was at the Infirmary that he first encountered work in orthopaedics and fractures and demonstrated an early talent for making and developing specialist apparatus and equipment.
After service in the Second World War as an Army surgeon and orthopaedic specialist, he returned to Manchester work under Sir Harry Platt at the Manchester Royal Infirmary before moving his clinical practice to Wrightington Hospital in 1962. It at Wrightington in November of that year that her performed the first hip replacement using an artificial joint he had designed himself.
The collection consists of works owned by Sir John and presented to the University by his widow, Lady Jill Charnley after his death in 1982. There are several editions of works he authored himself, including the groundbreaking The closed treatment of common fractures (Edinburgh, 1950 and publications he used in his research and practice.
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