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Abstract
The development of orthopedic surgery, as a specialty, has been attended by some incidents and circumstances which I think invite especial comment, for, more perhaps than any other specialty in medicine, its evolution has been influenced by a few men whose personality and whose acknowledged ability, especially in a mechanical way, have contributed to the present successful status. The influence of these pioneers, supplemented by the modern developments of operative surgery, has been to establish in the minds of many some doubt as to what orthopedic surgery really is. Modern orthopedic surgery in this country may be said to date from the time of Dr. Henry J. Bigelow of Boston, who wrote a "Manual of Orthopedic Surgery," which obtained the Boylston prize for 1844. The essay was on this subject: "In what cases, and to what extent, is the division of muscles, tendons and others parts, proper for
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