Christie Hospital: miscellaneous documents and records

Scope and Content

1. Volume: “Nursing Staff Register”, 1921-1938.

2. File: “Museum Plant Exhibition” containing various notes and other material relating to plants and plants in medicine.

3. University hospital of South Manchester: Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, Annual Report 1970.

4. Photocopy of pages from the Manchester Guardian, 1933, relating to Christie Hospital.

5. Booklet: Early Healing of the Orbit after Exenteration by Lyall R. McLaren (1958).

6. Journal offprint: “Primary Skin Grafting after Exenteration of the Orbit” by Lyall R. MacLaren from British Journal of Plastic Surgery April 1958.

7. Journal offprint: “The Use and Abuse of Radium Needles” by F.L Hopwood and F.E. Smallman from the British Journal of Radiology.

8 Journal offprint “The Use of Co-polymer Sheet-Plastic in Radiotherapy” by R.E. Toogood from Radiography, 1962.

9. More journal offprints on related subjects to the above.

10. Trade brochure for Marconi Deep Therapy Apparatus (undated).

11. Copy map of Christie site (undated).

12. Report “Trial of Multiple Chemotherapy in the treatment of Advanced Breast Cancer” initialed “D.P., M.P.C., G.G.R. and I.T.”.

13. Newspaper cutting re Brian and Margaret Fox and tests on a cancer-curing drug.

14. Journal reprint: “An Address on the treatment of patients with inoperable cancer” by R.B. Wild from The Lancet, 1928.

15. Photocopied notes on "The Duties of the Radiologist".

16. Appeal Booklet: “An Urgent Task: The New Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute. c. 1932.

17 Appeal booklet: “The Fight against Cancer” (undated)

18. Newspaper cutting re Brian Fox, appeal for photographs for History of Christie.

19. Copy of “Dr Edith Paterson: an Appreciation” by Brian Fox (1995)

20. Envelope containing a confidential historical document re civil defence and the role of the hospital, 1951

21. Obituary for Dr Alan Snow n.d.