on the piano. He said that he once, very nearly, joined a well-known dance band instead of doing medicine! Thankfully, he changed his mind.
He died in Sheffield on 31 March 2001 after a stroke and a disabling illness lasting 2 years. He leaves his wife Peta, and two sons, and a son and daughter from his first marriage.
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David SILVER
1873–1946
David Silver was born in Wellsville, Ohio, March 16, 1873, the son of David Silver and Nancy Elizabeth Hammond Silver. He was graduated from Exeter Academy and Harvard University.
After he had received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School in 1899, he did postgraduate work in Germany and Austria until 1901. Soon after his return to the United States, he entered upon his practice in Pittsburgh.
He actually established orthopedic surgery in Pittsburgh, and achieved outstanding success in this field.
Dr. Silver was professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh for many years, and later was professor emeritus. He was head of the orthopedic department of the Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, for 30 years. From the time of its establishment in 1919 until 1944, he was in charge of the D.T. Watson Home for Crippled Children at Leetsdale, Pennsylvania. He was consulting orthopedic surgeon at the Chil- dren’s Hospital, Pittsburgh Hospital, and the Industrial Home for Crippled Children. He was orthopedic consultant for the United States Army during World War I, in the Surgeon General’s office.
Harry M. SHERMAN
1854–1921
Harry Sherman was clinical professor of orthope- dic surgery in the medical department of the Uni- versity of California. Elected to the American Orthopedic Association in 1889, he became one of its most active members and in 1900 was elected president. An original thinker, a brilliant surgeon and an honest seeker after truth, he refused to accept the current methods of treat- ment. He was one of the first to advocate early operation in tuberculosis of the hip (1893) because of the slow unsatisfactory course of cases treated conservatively. He practiced excision of the knee in children and took care to conserve the epiphysial cartilage (1897). He had the courage to report unsatisfactory results with the Lorenz reduction of congenital hip dislocation at a time when other orthopedic surgeons were lavish in their praise of the method. His presidential address was devoted to the same theme as that of his modern successor, Le Roy Abbott—the
He contributed to the literature many publica- tions dealing with orthopedic problems. His medical affiliations included the American Medical Association, the Medical Society for the State of Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Academy of Medicine, the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, and the Clinical Orthopedic Society.
He was a founder and fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He became a member of the American Orthopedic Association in 1906, served as president during the year 1916–1917, and was always deeply interested in the work of the association.
Dr. Silver died at Orlando, Florida, March 22, 1946. His wife, Elizabeth Roadman Silver, sur- vived him.
Dr. Slocum entered the military in 1941 as a first lieutenant. His service included chief of orthopedics, Letterman and Torney Hospitals, Palm Springs, California, and chief of the ampu- tation section, Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, DC. During his military service, he became aware of the difficulties that prosthetic specialists had with the design and finding of artificial limbs.
Working with Djon Mili, he filmed sequences that showed natural human gait and gait with artificial limbs. The stop-action sequence pictures docu- mented hip, knee, ankle, and foot angles for every fraction of the human pace. The work became a part of Slocum’s Atlas of Amputations, a respected orthopedic textbook of its time.
A lieutenant colonel at the war’s end, Dr.
Slocum left military service in 1946 and returned to Eugene, Oregon, to set up a specialty orthope- dic practice. He became interested in repairing knees so that maximum activity could be pursued, whether by a professional athlete attempting to continue in competitive sport or an injured mill- worker wanting to lead a normally productive life. In 1962, Dr. Slocum developed the pes anser- inus transplant to realign the muscles and tendons for injured ligaments in order to prevent rotatory instability.
Although his earlier work had centered on injuries to the shoulder, arm and hand, Dr.
Slocum’s surgical labors began to center on the knee. He collaborated with Bill Bowerman, the nationally recognized track coach at the Univer- sity of Oregon, in producing a study, “Biome- chanics of Running,” which had great impact on the coaching of track-and-field athletes. Concur- rently, his growing prominence in athletic medi- cine slowly changed the nature of his clientele and his work. Dr. Slocum became the master of gait and kinesiology, and gave annual symposia on the biomechanics of running. He lectured, wrote innumerable articles for medical journals, and traveled all over the world sharing knowledge of the knee. He chaired many committees; served as chief of orthopedic surgery at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene, Oregon, and professor of orthopedics at the University of Oregon Medical School, Portland; and was a member of the American College of Surgeons, State Advisory Committee. In 1975 he was named “Mr. Sports Medicine” by the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine.
While fame and success were constantly at his doorstep, Dr. Slocum never lost his genuine love of and contact with people. The Register Guard 307
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Donald Barclay SLOCUM
1911–1983
Donald Barclay Slocum was born in Portland, Oregon, on April 11, 1911. He was awarded a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1935, and a Master’s degree from the University of Tennessee in 1939.
He did postgraduate work in orthopedic surgery at the University of Iowa and was a fellow in orthopedic surgery at the Willis C. Campbell Clinic, Memphis, Tennessee.
