Material relating to Edward Wing Twining (1887-1939), Consultant Neuroradiologist at Manchester and regarded by those in the profession as the Father of British Neuroradiology.
Twining first gained knowledge of radiology during the First World War and, after the War, he served as radiologist to the Ministry of Pensions. In 1923 he was the outstanding candidate in the newly-instituted Cambridge Diploma in Medical Radiology and Electrotherapeutics (DMRE). One of the examiners for the DMRE was A.E. Barclay of Manchester. Barclay was so impressed by Twining that he invited him to Manchester to fill a specially created post in the X-ray Department of the Royal Infirmary. He pursued a successful career there and succeeded Barclay when he left for Cambridge in 1928. Amongst many achievements he described the radiology of the third and fourth ventricles as a two-part treatise, illustrated with his own beautifully executed drawings. Twining died in 1939 of Osteomyelitis of the hip as a long term result of a needle-stick injury sustained as a medical student.
The material here comprises: a photocopy of two pages of a log book containing the entry for the first cerebral angiograms performed by Twining with Geoffrey Jefferson in 1933, two black and white photographs of Twining, one taken in the 1930s and the other undated, although probably earlier than the 1930s; four of Twining's own sketches, undated, illustrating the third and fourth ventricles of the brain, the ventricular system, the circulation of the cerebral spinal fluid, and the anterior, posterior and mid- cerebrals. Also, an application for the post of Honarary Assistant Radiologist at MRI, obituaries for Twining and an article on Twining by Ian Isherwood, published in the American Journal of Neuroradiology in 1995. Also, publications by Twining, namely:
- "Discussion on the Importance of Posture in Radiodiagnosis", 1933, published in theProceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
- "Ventriculography by Opaque Injection", published in the Lancet, 1935
- "The Value of Radiology in Neuro-Surgery", 1936, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
- "Lateral View of the Lung Apices", published in theBritish Journal of Radiology , 1937 and signed and dedicated by Twining
- "Radiology of the Third and Fourth Ventricles", 1939 (Twining's definitive work), published in the British Journal of Radiology