demonstration project on rehabilitation. The hos- pital remains a private, non-profit institution.
Dr. Engh served as President of the Virginia Orthopedic Society, the District of Columbia Orthopedic Society, and the Alexandria Medical Society. He was Chief of Staff at Alexandria Hospital as well as at the National Hospital for Orthopedics and Rehabilitation.
Dr. Engh was a distinguished orthopedic surgeon and a leader in the field of orthopedics.
He is particularly remembered in his community for his early work with children who were crip- pled by poliomyelitis, his founding of the National Hospital for Orthopedics and Rehabili- tation, and the Anderson Clinic, a practice that continues under the direction of his two sons.
Otto Anderson Engh died at his home in Falls Church, Virginia, on April 11, 1988. He was survived by his wife, Sara, of Falls Church, Virginia; three children, Charles A. Engh, MD, of Arlington, Virginia, Sara Engh Reger of Shaker Heights, Ohio, and Gerard A. Engh, MD, of Alexandria, Virginia.
world and art books in which pictures of defor- mities, braces and crutches appeared.
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Sigmund EPSTEIN
1880–1970
Dr. Sigmund Epstein practiced orthopedics in New York City for a lifetime. He was graduated from Cornell School of Medicine in 1903, and died in retirement at the age of 90. He was a cul- tivated gentleman with a pleasant interest in the arts and literature. During the latter part of his life, he acquired a large collection of photographs of masterpieces from museums throughout the
Wilhelm Heinrich ERB
1840–1921
Erb’s fame was made possible by hard work over a long period of time, with close attention to detail.
The son of a woodsman in the Black Forest, Erb studied at Heidelburg. His interest in clinical neu- rology developed when he worked for Friedreich.
Erb was a prolific writer; on returning from his holidays, he usually produced a new piece of work. In all, he wrote 237 papers and several books, one of peripheral nerve diseases, a text- book of spinal cord diseases, and another on electrotherapy. In 1880 he succeeded Friedreich at Heidelburg. He founded a journal, and was first President of the Society of German Neurologists in 1907.
Erb did much to give clinical examination of the nervous system its present form. He pointed out the significance and value of pupillary and tendon reflexes. He is remembered for his account of brachial plexus injuries.
In manner he was brusque and intense, and offended people by language unusual in academic circles; he was more respected than loved.
Medical administration, education and local politics were subsidiary interests. He died, it is
said, while listening to his favorite symphony, the Beethoven Eroica.
In 1869 and 1883 he published handbooks on first aid and founded the Samaritan’s schools, based on the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, to teach first aid throughout Germany.
When I look back on my career as a surgeon I can say with truth that many and many are the times I have deplored that so very few people know how to render the first aid to those who have suddenly met with some injury. This specially applies to the field of battle; of the thousands who have flocked thither in their desire to help, so few have understood how to render aid.
His program of education has improved the situation.
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Peter Gordon Lawrence ESSEX-LOPRESTI
1916–1951
Mr. Essex-Lopresti was trained at the London Hospital and qualified in 1937. After several res- ident appointments, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps serving as a surgical specialist in an airborne division. As a result of this experi- ence, he was able to give a comprehensive report on the injuries associated with 20,777 parachute jumps made by men in the Sixth British Airborne Division, one of the first such reports. A paper on the open wound in trauma followed. At the end of World War II, he went back to the Birmingham Accident Hospital where he reorganized the post- graduate training program. He was recognized as
Johann Friedrich August Von ESMARCH
1823–1908
Esmarch was a military surgeon who was con- cerned with blood loss and first aid.
He was born at Tonning, Schleswig-Holstein, at a time when the province was struggling for freedom from Denmark. The son of a doctor, he studied at Gottingen and Kiel, becoming an assistant to Langenbeck.
It was during the insurrection against Denmark in 1848–1850 that he began surgery; he also organized the resistance movement. In 1857 he became Professor of Surgery at Kiel, succeeding Stromeyer, the tenotomist, and marrying his daughter. He was engaged in military surgery again between 1866 and 1871 in the wars with Austria and France; in 1871 he became surgeon General of the army. Soon after, in 1873, he married again—this time a Princess of Schleswig- Holstein. In the same year he published his description of the bandage that bears his name.
He used this to produce a clear bloodless field for surgery and to diminish the blood loss during amputations in particular. His contributions to medicine were mainly derived from his battlefield experiences.
