Étienne DESTOT 1864–1918

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preted his radiographs only after a careful corre- lation of the clinical and anatomic features of the case, an approach that should be more widely used today.

References

1. Denier A (1959) Destot, pionnier de la radiologie à Lyon. Cahiers Lyonnais d’Histoire de la Medicine 4:3–11

2. Destot E (1905) La poignet et les accidents du travail: Etude radioagraphique et clinique. Paris, Vitot Freres

3. Destot E, Vignard P, Barlatier R (1909) Les fractures du coude chez l’enfant. Paris, O. Doin

4. Destot E (1911) Traumatismes du pied et rayons x.

Paris, Masson & Cie

5. Destot E (1926) Injuries of the Wrist: A Radiologi- cal Study. New York, Paul B. Hoeber, English trans- lation by FRB Atkinson

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Étienne DESTOT

1864–1918

Étienne Destot was born in Dijon and educated in Lyon, where in February 1896, less than 2 months after the announcement of the discovery of the x-ray by Rontgen, he was already making radi- ographs of patients in the Hôtel Dieu. He had great enthusiasm for this new method and devoted a major share of his time to developing the tech- nique and its application to clinical medicine. His work led to the publication of three monographs, the first dealing with injuries of the wrist,

the second with injuries of the elbow in children,

and the third with injuries of the foot and ankle.

Because of severe radiation damage to his hands, he was forced to give up his position as the radi- ologist at the Hôtel Dieu in 1913. In addition to his work in radiology, he was also interested in medical applications of electricity and neurology.

In the course of his work he made many contri- butions to orthopedics. He was something of a tal- ented eccentric, a sculptor, and the designer of an aerodynamic car with an aluminum body! He was sent to the western front as a medical officer in World War I, and died as a result of pneumonia in 1918.

During his life, Destot continued to revise his work. An English translation of the most recent manuscript of his work on injuries of the wrist was made by F.R.B. Atkinson of Edinburgh and published in 1926.

It is clear that Destot inter-

Naughton DUNN

1884–1939

Mr. Dunn was born in Aberdeen in 1884 and was educated in the grammar school and university of that city, graduating in medicine in 1909. His interest in orthopedic surgery began with his appointment as house surgeon to the late Sir Robert Jones at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, some years before the Great War.

From this association there developed between

the teacher and pupil a firm friendship, which endured until the former’s death.

Following his training in orthopedic surgery, he transferred to Birmingham, where he became associated with the Birmingham Cripples’ Union, and through his instrumentality the organizations for the treatment of the cripple in the Birmingham district were gradually joined together, and, in place of a number of scattered societies, whose work necessarily overlapped, the present Royal Cripples’ Hospital was established.

Wider recognition of the value and originality of his work came to him through his efforts during and after the Great War. He was one of that small band of British surgeons who were called on by Sir Robert Jones to carry out preventive and cor- rective surgery in the British Army, a task that they were able to accomplish only through the generous help of their American colleagues.

Returning to Birmingham after the war, he con- tinued his work at the Royal Cripples’ Hospital and at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Ortho- pedic Hospital in Oswestry, an institution in which he played a particularly vital part.

Mr. Dunn received many honors, but of them all probably the one he treasured most was the honorary LLD, which was conferred upon him by his own University of Aberdeen in 1937. He was connected with many hospitals in the Midlands, both in an active and in an advisory capacity, and he held the very important post of Lecturer in Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Birmingham. He was one of the original members of the British Orthopedic Association and for a number of years served on the executive com- mittee. He also held the office of President of the Orthopedic Section of the Royal Society of Med- icine and was a corresponding member of the American, French, and Australian Orthopedic Associations.

Although Mr. Dunn’s contributions to the liter- ature of orthopedic surgery were not as numerous as one would have expected from a surgeon of his standing, what they lacked in quantity was com- pensated by their extreme soundness and breadth of vision. They were typical of the man—inher- ently sound, sane, and thoughtful—and charac- terized by an underlying care for the patient, which was always his first anxiety. His most notable contribution, which brought him an inter- national reputation, was his work on the operative treatment of paralytic deformities of the foot.

The early death of Mr. Naughton Dunn, which occurred on November 19, 1939, after a long, dis-

tressing illness, has deprived British orthopedic surgery of one of its outstanding figures and the British Orthopedic Association of its President, a post that he held during 1938 and 1939.

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Guillaume DUPUYTREN

1777–1835

Guillaume Dupuytren was born in Pierre-Buffière near Limoges in 1777. There had previously been several surgeons in the Dupuytren family. In 1719, a surgeon Michel Dupuytren lived at Pierre- Buffière, running the tobacco shop at the same time. François Dupuytren, grandfather of Guillaume, drowned while returning from visit- ing a sick patient. Two brothers of François, Leonard and Jacques, were also surgeons, so that it is not surprising that Guillaume selected surgery, although his own father was a lawyer.

Guillaume was sent to Paris for his schooling in a Jesuit institution named after its founder, Jean de la Marche. It was during this period, from the dawn of the Revolution in 1789 through the bloody Reign of Terror in 1793–1794, that young Dupuytren was a student in Paris. The changes that the Revolution wrought were to affect deeply the shape of his life. Now the road to success was open to the talented, without distinction of birth or fortune.

Once at home again in 1794, Guillaume wanted

to join the army. His father, however, insisted that,

in the family tradition, Guillaume become a