At the end of the Spanish–American War in July, 1898, he was sent to Cuba as representative of the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association.
His assignment was to receive supplies sent on hospital ships and to determine the needs of the men. His first concern was for the sick among our troops ready to be evacuated to the United States and he made provision for their care on transports.
Then, at the request of General Wood, he took charge of a hospital in Santiago and also organ- ized work for the care of the sick in the city, where serious epidemics had developed.
Answering the call of his country in World War I, he was largely responsible for the training of the orthopedic personnel and for the determina- tion of where they should be located after their preparation had been completed. He himself, eventually, was sent overseas, returning with the rank of Colonel.
At the invitation of the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, who learned that he contemplated a trip to China in 1922, he gave a series of lectures at the Peking Union Medical College and in one or two other medical centers.
maturity and originality. His study of club feet published 60 years ago might well be used today in an orthopedic instructional course. Besides his great technical contributions, particularly to the treatment of tuberculous coxitis and of congeni- tal hip disease, he introduced the “social point of view” into orthopedic surgery by helping found the Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children in Boston (1894), and established the principle of preventive medicine in orthopedic surgery by his campaign for correct shoes and adequate seating of school children. His amazing industry is attested by the publication between 1887 and 1902 of 105 original papers, a textbook, and numerous articles on orthopedic progress in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
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Louis W. BRECK
1909–1993
The son of a pioneer dentist, Louis Breck was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1909. He was educated in local schools and attended Northwestern Uni- versity, from which he received his medical degree in 1933. After his orthopedic training at the Mayo Clinic, he began his practice in El Paso.
During World War II, he served in the army as a medical officer, being discharged with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He returned to El Paso to continue his practice and remained active until his retirement in 1979.
To his patients and friends, Dr. Breck was a very special person. He had many innovative
Edward H. BRADFORD
1848–1926
Edward Bradford was one of the most vigorous of the “founding fathers,” the third president of the American Orthopedic Association (1889) and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the Harvard Medical School (1903). He had a mind of unusual
