Joseph Hiram KITE1891–1986

pedic Surgery. He was a member of the American Orthopedic Association and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, as well as many other distinguished orthopedic organiza- tions. Dr. King’s many honors included the J.E.

Wallace Sterling Distinguished Alumni Award from Stanford University School of Medicine and the Distinguished Service Award from the United States Army. Friends and former residents founded the Don King Orthopedic Library at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in 1980. In his memory, the Don King Educational Fund has been initiated for the education of orthopedic residents at that institution.

Donald E. King died in San Francisco on December 1, 1987, at the age of 84. He was sur- vived by his wife Eva; sons, Donald and Douglas;

and daughter, Sharon Wilcox.

infancy in the large cities, Kite received many neglected cases in older children for whom more aggressive therapy was required.

His early interest in these cases became known, and the paper “Principles Involved in the Treat- ment of Congenital Clubfoot,” read before the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons on January 17, 1939, became a classic contribution to the treatment of club foot. Lorenz had “broken”

the deformity over a pyramid, but the slower, gradual correction in plaster produced infinitely better results, if surgical intervention became necessary; much less bone was involved in the

“corrected” foot than in straightening a deformed one. Following publication of Kite’s article, his method became standard practice for advanced deformed cases throughout the orthopedic world.

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Joseph Hiram KITE

1891–1986

Joseph Hiram Kite is generally associated with the Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children in Decatur, Georgia. He was trained at Johns Hopkins Hospital and practiced in Atlanta. His greatest work, however, was done at the hospital in Decatur, an institution that primarily served the children of the Kentucky–Tennessee mountain country, where little medical care was available during and before the 1930s. At a time when con- genital club foot was already being treated in

Auguste Dejerine KLUMPKE

1859–1927

Auguste Dejerine-Klumpke was born in San

Francisco in 1859 and educated in Switzerland

along with her three sisters. She subsequently

went to Paris for her medical education, which

was obtained only by surmounting all of the bar-

riers placed in the way of women who wished to

pursue a medical career in those days. Dejerine-

Klumpke was the first woman extern and intern

in the Paris hospital system. Early in her career,

she described a form of brachial plexus palsy

affecting the lowest branches, which is still

known as Klumpke’s paralysis. She became