Extinct Medical Schools of Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Wildberger became a renowned local figure and received an honorary medical doctorate from Jena and many foreign honours. In later life he moved his institute to Forchheim, where he had the assistance of his medically-qualified son before the latter emigrated to America. His writings on the proper training of orthopaedic surgeons, with their insistence on early specialist education in methods and appliances based on the orthopaedic institute and clinic, are surprisingly modem. DAVID LE VAY