Tag Archives: orthopedic surgeons

A circle of hip surgery around four continents

July 30, 2021

Peter Arnold Sydney, Australia   X-ray of the hip. Photo courtesy of Peter Arnold. My story begins in Sydney in late January 1980. A businessman in his mid-fifties (Mr. C.) had been on his way to source products in the UK. As his student son was traveling in Italy, he decided to visit him by […]

Homini Verminoso who created “Orthopaedia”

May 7, 2019

Fadlurrahman Manaf Surabaya, Indonesia   Figure 1. Nicolas Andry (1658-1742)1 Homini Verminoso (worm man) was the nickname given to the Paris professor Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard, so called because of his work in parasitology.1,2 In 1700 he wrote a book titled De la generation des vers dans le corps de l’homme. De la nature et […]