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British Journal of Radiology (1987) 60, 51-68
© 1987 British Institute of Radiology
doi: 10.1259/0007-1285-60-709-51
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Growing points in radiotherapy since 1930. The 65th Mackenzie Davidson Memorial Lecture 1984*

Frank Ellis, M.A., M.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.A.C.R. (Hon.), D.M.R. {dagger}

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I feel greatly honoured in being asked to give this, the 65th Mackenzie Davidson Memorial Lecture, in honour of a Scotsman born in Buenos Aires but educated in Scotland who had the initiative and imagination, at the age of 29, the year after Röntgen's publication, to renounce an already successful career as ophthalmic surgeon and university lecturer in the medical school at Aberdeen to devote his inventive and clinical talents to radiology. He was knighted in 1912 and was the elected president of the Röntgen Society in 1912–13; he was the president of the British Association of Radiology (BAR) and the British Institute of Radiology (BIR) from 1917 to 1919, when he died at the age of 62. The title of this lecture committed me to too large a subject, but I felt that the remarkable growth of radiotherapy since 1930, when I started, should be reviewed. Hence, I aim to mention many important growing points and to discuss others more directly affecting clinical radiotherapy.

Following the recovery of King George V from pneumonia in 1929, money collected as a national thanksgiving fund for his recovery was put in charge of the National Radium Trust, which appointed a National Radium Commission (1932) to administer the radium. The National Radium Commission lent the radium rent-free to teaching hospitals, which were to appoint radium officers responsible for the care of the radium and for the records of patients treated.

* Delivered in London on March 7, 1984.

{dagger} Present address: The Old Bakery, Thames Street, Charlbury, Oxford OX7 3QQ.

Received for publication March 1, 1984.




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