Heroic Medicine
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Nearly 60 years after he died, surgeons from around the world still honour the memory of Sir Robert Jones, the father of modern British orthopaedics. Sir Robert lived and worked at a time when crippled children were a common sight on Britain's streets, and one of his greatest achievements was to show that many of these children-the victims chiefly of tuberculosis, rickets, and poliomyelitis-could be cured. The principles of treatment which he introduced, however, were not new. They had been established half a cehtury before by his uncle and teacher, Hugh Owen Thomas, who died 100 years ago. Sadly, and largely for reasons of his own making, Thomas's principles wete not widely accepted by the medical profession during his lifetime. Many people suffered needlessly as a result, and John Ridlon, an American surgeon who knew both Thomas and his nephew, said that "one of the greatest things Robert Jones ever did was to make the main principles of Hugh Owen Thomas acceptable to the medical profession."' Of the three crippling diseases, by far the most common was tuberculosis which, in children, was largely a disease of joints, particularly the hip joint and spine. Many of its victims were chronic invalids, "hopeless cripples" in the language of the day, often reduced to begging and an embarrassment to a society that prided itself on its achievements. So many were affected that in 1893 a surgeon at Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Sick Children wrote: "Had I four times the number of beds at my disposal, I could fill them all in a week with cases of spinal diseases and hip-joint disease in its late manifestation ... only the worst can be admitted."2
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