nary occlusion. He had been confined to the hos- pital only a few days and died, as he had lived, without fear, advising his friends that he had no apprehension about his health.
To his friends and associates he typified the
“indestructible man”—a person endowed with the physical, mental, and temperamental qualities, who should have lived to be a centenarian and not have passed at the age of 51, when his many ster- ling qualities were being recognized and a future still lay before him. He accomplished much and America has lost one of its most brilliant ortho- pedic surgeons.
It was very fitting that such a man should have had an ideal family life. In September 1925 he married Alice Charlotte Johnson, and he was survived by her and their two children, Guy Whitman, Jr. and Patricia Alice.
Hospital in Boston, which he served for a period of 39 years, first as a house officer and then as a surgeon and a teacher. He was known the world over not only for his discovery of the hip condi- tion known as Legg’s disease, but also for his excellent and careful work in connection with infantile paralysis. He was the representative of the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission at the Children’s Hospital, and his judgment in regard to operative procedure in infantile paralysis was respected by everyone.
Dr. Legg was assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the Harvard Medical School and a consultant at many hospitals throughout New England. He had charge of the infantile para- lysis cases at the Lakeville State Sanatorium, Middleboro, Massachusetts, and was consultant to the State Department of Public Health. At one time Dr. Legg was chairman of the section on orthopedic surgery of the American Medical Association and, in 1933, he was vice president of the American Orthopedic Association. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthope- dic Surgeons and of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the New England Pediatric Society.
A good teacher and an excellent surgeon, Dr.
Legg was withal a kind, modest fellow, who never put himself forward, but when his opinion was asked he was always ready to give it, and his advice was generally very valuable. To be sure, he was conservative, but when an operative pro- cedure or a method of treatment had been proved to be satisfactory, he was anxious to adopt it.
On July 8, 1939, Dr. Arthur T. Legg died at the Harvard Club, Boston, Massachusetts, in his 66th year.
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