Operation on spinal cord

Scope and Content

Three detailed drawings side by side of the spinal cord exposed at operation and a needle being inserted. The patient is known to have been suffering from meningitis and paralysis of both legs, see patient file for more details. Annotations on the back read "Fig 23 patient's name 6 1/2 22.11.35 drawn 8.11.52 Manchester University neurosurgical dept please return" and "52/12/12/10 Butterworth".

S.P. 170

In the bottom left.

Signed by the artist in the bottom right corner.

Access Information

This file contains sensitive personal information about an individual who is less than 100 years old and is closed under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998, subject to review by UoM archivist.

Related Material

UoM Library also hold the medical case notes for the subject of this drawing which can be found in the collection of Geoffrey Jefferson's patient case files, JCN/10/125.

A rough sketch created in the process of making this drawing can be found in the collection of Davison's working sketches, see DDS/3/2.

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