SIR HARRY PLATT

FIRST PROFESSOR OF ORTHOPAEDICS
AT MANCHESTER

"In 1903 another name comes into the story."

"A teenager with a late diagnosis of tuberculosis of the knee presented at
Nelson Street."

"With the immense strength Robert Jones had in his hands he straightened the child’s knee – leaving him with a permanent limp"

"Fast forward ten years and the VIITH International Congress of Medicine
takes place in London"

"In charge of the International Orthopaedic Division is one Sir Robert Jones.
Whilst showing them round the royal orthopaedic hospital in London Sir Robert meets a medical student he recognises as a former patient –
his name was Harry Platt."
 

"Later, Sir Harry Platt, through his mentor Robert Jones, was appointed surgeon in charge of the military orthopaedic centre in Manchester and then later became the First Professor of Orthopaedics in Manchester in 1939"