condition of the child, especially in relation to defor- mities. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London 3:293
5. Smart WAM (1944) Famous London Hospital Clin- icians—William John Little (1810–94). London Hospital Gazette 47:8.4
these departments. In addition to the routine work, Elmslie allotted him the by-no-means easy task of clearing out the crowd of old chronics that was clogging the massage department.
In 1923 he had the invaluable experience of crossing the Atlantic and visiting a number of clinics in Canada and the United States. On his return to London, he obtained the post of house surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, a hospital to which he gave devoted service for the rest of his life. He was later appointed medical superintendent of the hos- pital, a post he held for 2 years, during which he gained valuable general experience of sick chil- dren, including operative surgery for emergency cases. In 1926 he became surgical registrar, and before the end of the year was appointed to the honorary staff.
Although his interest was always concentrated on the orthopedic work, he was not actually des- ignated orthopedic surgeon to the hospital until 20 years had elapsed. During his early training he had served as registrar at the Royal National Orthopedic Hospital, where he gained further general experience of orthopedic surgery. For several years he held the post of orthopedic surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital, a post from which he resigned in 1948, and for a time he was consulting orthopedic surgeon to the London County Council. Throughout these years, though he was acquiring an ever-increasing general experience of orthopedics, his heart was always dragging him towards his young patients at the Children’s Hospital.
He was a scrupulously careful technician, and he gave an endless amount of thought to the details of any operation he was called upon to perform. He published a useful article on the technique of operating on the knee joint. He had quite a mechanical turn of mind and designed an ingenious director to facilitate the correct inser- tion of a Smith–Petersen pin in the neck of the femur. This he published in this country and also in a French journal. Later he suggested a modifi- cation of the pin to prevent it from sliding out, an introducer and an extractor. His director was rather complicated and never came into general use. He also designed quite a useful tilting table for holding a patient during operation for con- genital dislocation of the hip, and he suggested the use of copper strips to facilitate the removal of a plaster-of-Paris splint.
With the exception of two or three early surgi- cal papers, all the articles he wrote, probably not 205
Who’s Who in Orthopedics
Eric Ivan LLOYD
1892–1954
Eric Lloyd was born in 1892, the son of J.H.
Lloyd of Birmingham. He was educated at Leighton Park, Reading, a school of which he later became a governor, and at Trinity College Cambridge. In his youth he was a fine athlete and was allotted a half-blue for the half-mile while at the university. He proceeded to St.
Bartholomew’s Hospital to complete his medical education, and passed the final examination of the Conjoint Board in 1916. He promptly joined the Royal Navy and served as a temporary surgeon for two and a half years, most of the time on a ship at sea. On returning to London at the end of the war, he held two resident appointments at
“Bart’s,” house physician and house surgeon, and having passed his final Fellowship he became a demonstrator of anatomy for a time and was then appointed clinical assistant to both the orthopedic and massage departments. These two appoint- ments initiated his ever-increasing interest in orthopedic surgery, for he had the privilege of working under that very distinguished surgeon, the late R.C. Elmslie, who was in charge of both
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.”
206 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,
