Putti v vittorio (1 risultati)
Editore: Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1937., 1937
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Da: Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 230 pp, including 77 plates. Folio. Original 3/4-cloth and boards. Bottom corners of covers bumped. Gilt spine lettering rubbed. German translation of the original Italian edition, Anatomia della lussazione congenita dell'anca (Bologna: 1935). "Putti made many contributions to the understanding…of congenital dislocation of the hip, not the least of which was the magnificent atlas of anatomical dissections of nine patients of all ages with the condition" (Peltier, Orthopedics, a History and Iconography, pp. 73-74). Vittorio Putti was " 'a noble man endowed by Nature with extraordinary gifts of body and spirit'. Putti was indeed noble in character and achievement (and modesty) and, as Harry Platt writes, destined to outshine his master. Born of a Bolognese surgeon and a poetess, a multilingual scholar in an ancient university city, he became director of the Rizzoli Institute in 1911 at the age of 31 and made it famous during the first world war as a centre for reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation. At the end of the war, when he was still only 40, Putti had done work on peripheral nerve injuries, cineplastic amputation and knee-joint arthroplasty that set him squarely in the front rank of European orthopaedists. Under his guidance between the wars, the Institute was enlarged and given a fine library, aided from his own pocket, and became a Mecca where young men were trained to work throughout Italy (and also South America). Like Wren, Putti touched nothing that he did not adorn. He wrote of his extensive local resections for bone tumours for which others would have considered amputation inevitable; of lumbar spondylosis as a cause of low back pain and sciatica; in his last year of a compression screw of fractures of the neck of the femur. However, he is best known for his work on congenital dislocation of the hip [offered here], particularly important in northern Italy, where the condition was endemic, providing mayor contributions to our knowledge of its morbid anatomy and on preventive measures. He promoted an intensive educational programme among general practitioners and the lay public to obtain early diagnosis and used a simple triangular cushion to maintain reduction in young children. Over 3600 cases were treated by manipulative reduction between 1899 and 1938. Writing in 1950, Platt said that the years between the world wars were a golden age for orthopaedic surgery, and that the heroes of this age were surely Robert Jones and Vittorio Putti. No-one can dispute this" (Le Vay, The History of Orthopaedics, pp. 288-290). OCLC locates copies in these US libraries: Chicago, Cleveland Health Sci Lib., NLM, New York Acad. Med., Coll. Physicians Phila., Stanford.