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Training for Surgery 1929–1940

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Having succeeded in gaining his right to university admission, John Charnley entered the Medical School of the Victoria University of Manchester in the autumn of 1929.

He was very bright, very clever and very good company...

Alan Nicholson remembers John Charnley in 1939

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Waugh, W. (1990). Training for Surgery 1929–1940. In: John Charnley. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3159-5_2

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