Norman Leslie CAPENER1898–1975

obstacles. The words of one of his friends express his feeling for him: “To know him was to love him, for his magnetic charm, his sincerity, his strong sense of fairness, and his unfailing kind- ness and courtesy endeared him to all who came within his ken. Indeed, only a little with him, and one was convinced that here, indisputably, was greatness.”

Willis Cohoon Campbell died on May 4, 1941, in Chicago. He was survived by his wife, the former Elizabeth Yerger, whom he married in 1908.

Dr. Campbell’s work was his life and he gave his life to it.

Norman Leslie CAPENER

1898–1975

Norman Leslie Capener was born on May 4, 1898, in Hornsey, North London, the third of a family of six boys. All were musical, and all went first to the Temple Choir School and then to the City of London School. For financial reasons, Norman had to leave when 14 to work in a City office for nearly 2 years before becoming an assis- tant master at a preparatory school. Having passed the examination of the College of Precep- tors, he entered the Medical College of St.

Bartholomew’s Hospital. He joined the Inns of Court Officers’ Training Corps, and in September 1917 was commissioned in the Royal Marines.

Thence, being a medical student, he was trans- ferred to the navy in the rank of Surgeon Sub- lieutenant, RNVR. On a change of policy away from the employment of medical students in ships, he was sent back to Bart’s to complete his training. In 1921, while still a student, he married Miss Marion Clarke, the daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy. He qualified in 1922, proceeded FRCS in 1924, and, gaining the Luther Holden and Streetfield scholarships, served for several years as demonstrator of anatomy under Profes- sor Le Gros Clark, for whom he had a lifelong regard. Capener then became a chief assistant on the Surgical Professorial Unit under Professor Gask and Mr. (later Sir) Thomas Dunhill. When Dr. Hugh Cabot took temporary charge of the Unit, he invited Capener to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as Assistant Professor of Surgery, where he served from 1926 to 1931 and

Who’s Who in Orthopedics

Pieter CAMPER

1722–1789

Pieter Camper, Professor of Medicine in Amster- dam, published one of the remarkable books in orthopedic literature, Desertation on the Best Form of Shoe. It was translated immediately and repeatedly into several European languages and was considered worthy of reprint as late as 1861.

He was one of the outstanding medical scientists

of Europe in the eighteenth century and his

apology for discussing so lowly a subject as shoes

is amply discussed in his introduction. He inci-

dentally was also one of the superior anatomical

artists of his period and, like da Vinci, illustrated

his own publications.