more than 20 in all, were devoted to orthopedic subjects. He published a second paper in a French journal, one dealing with the manipulation of joints. He also contributed to the later editions of that well-known textbook on diseases of children, which still bears the name of the original authors, Garrod, Batten and Thursfield. His writings, like everything else he did, were backed by most careful and conscientious study, and invariably contained sound advice. In the Second World War he readily responded to an appeal for help from an emergency hospital near St. Albans, which was staffed by some of his friends of St.
Bartholomew’s Hospital and was being over- whelmed with casualties from Dunkirk. Later he became an official surgeon of the Emergency Medical Service on the staff of the hospital.
As a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, he served as secretary of the pediatric section and became president of the orthopedic section. He was a Fellow of the British Orthopedic Associa- tion and a member of the Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie.
Having been born a member of an old and dis- tinguished Quaker family, he always remained a keen and faithful Friend. At the beginning of the First World War, before he qualified, he served for a time in the Friends Ambulance Unit. When he went to live in that charming house he had in Hertfordshire, he became an active and valued member of the Friends of Harpenden. He was a member of the local golf club and became a vice president of the local horticultural society.
It was his deep sincerity and integrity, coupled with cheerful friendliness, which made Eric Lloyd a real friend of all he met. To his juniors he was always kind and considerate. The painstaking thoroughness with which he ap- proached every surgical problem never failed to impress his patients or their parents, while his natural charm and kindliness soon won their hearts. They became convinced they were dealing with a man they could trust to do the utmost that surgery made possible, and they knew he would tell them the truth if complete cure was impossi- ble. The same happy relations existed with his colleagues who, without exception, were his real friends. As a surgeon he earned their esteem and admiration for his skill, his sound judgment and his obvious integrity and loyalty. He himself was the most severe critic of the results of his own operations. His colleagues knew they could always rely on him for valuable and ready help.
More than one of them has testified to his excep-
tional value in committee work: on more than one occasion it was Eric who came to the rescue, and who, with a few wise words, coupled perhaps with a touch of his wit, was able to smooth out differences when discussion of a difficult problem was becoming somewhat heated. He will always be remembered with gratitude.
Keen as he was on his work, he was equally devoted to his home. In 1922, shortly before he began to work at the Children’s Hospital, a friend at “Bart’s” persuaded him to go for a trip to South Africa. Fortunately for him, a Miss Antoinette Marie Roux was traveling home to Pretoria in the same ship—the lady who a few years later became his devoted wife and eventually pre- sented him with a son and a daughter.
Of Eric Lloyd it can be said with truth “His integrity stands without blemish.”
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Who’s Who in Orthopedics
Adolf LORENZ
1854–1946
Adolf Lorenz was a dominating figure in
European orthopedics during the closing years of
the nineteenth century and by then he had stan-
dardized his manipulative technique for the
bloodless reduction of congenital dislocation of
the hip. It was not until 1904 that he began to
travel to other countries to demonstrate his
method to surgical audiences who were eager to
see the master at work. In the catastrophic finan-
cial collapse of Austria, which followed the First
World War, Lorenz lost his life savings overnight,
but during the next decade he repaired his for- tunes in a series of visits to the United States.
His tenure of the professorship of orthopedics in Vienna had then come to an end under the age limit and his creative work lay behind him in the past. His one remaining contribution was to pop- ularize the operation of bifurcation osteotomy (1919). It was not his own idea, for Von Baeyer had already worked out its mechanical basis, and the chief credit for the more discriminating appli- cation of this procedure to different types of hip joint affection must be given to his pupil, Julius Haas, who followed him in the university chair and filled it with distinction until he was forced out by the Anschluss. Lorenz has told his own story, and it is part of the history of European orthopedics, in his autobiography written in viva- cious fashion at the age of 82 (Scribners, New York, 1936). He made of orthopedics a spectacu- lar art and his place is secure in our gallery of heroes.
pharmacist, he completed his education and in 1934 entered the 2-year medical school at the University of Missouri, in Columbia. He finished his medical education at the University of Louisville, receiving his medical degree in 1937.
His education was obtained in spite of great hard- ship.
He began his internship at the St. Louis County Hospital in 1937. After an internship and 6 months of residency training, he was called to service with the US Army Medical Corps. He had a distinguished career in the army, beginning as the chief of the station hospital in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, the 201st General Hospital in Camp Ellis, IL (later moved to outside of Paris), and the Hessing Orthopedic Hospital in Augsburg, West Germany.
After getting out of the service, Lottes re- turned to St. Louis, repeated an internship and then had his residency in orthopedic surgery under the aegis of J. Albert Key. It was while he was an intern that Lottes developed and perfected his ideas about an intramedullary nail for the tibia, working at night in the morgue of the hos- pital. The Lottes nail was one of the first major contributions to the technical development of intramedullary nailing by an American orthope- dic surgeon. Lottes practiced in St. Louis until 1982 before retiring to his home in Cape Girardeau.
In gratitude for the university that gave him the opportunity to obtain his education, Lottes, who worked in the library at night while a student, gave the University of Missouri–Columbia Medical School, one million dollars in 1985 to build a new library, which was named the J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library.
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