Haglund Patrick (1 results)

Stockholm: A.-B. Nordiska Bokhandeln, 1913, 8°, XVI, 604 pp., 270 Abbildungen, Halbleinenband; kleiner Stempel auf Titel. First Edition of the 'Consequences of paediatric paralysis and their treatment from a medical and social point of view'. Patrik Haglund (1870-1937), "who had been a pupil of Hoffa in Berlin and became the first professor of orthopaedics in Sweden in 1913, with a clinical base at the Karolinska Institute. For a long time he was the only academic teacher of orthopaedics in the country. Perhaps this was why, initially, Scandinavian orthopaedics developed along German lines, with institutions for the care and training of cripples and the supply of appliances and artificial limbs. Like too many orthopaedic pioneers, Haglund achieved his ambition of a new specialized orthopaedic unit only when he was due to retire, at the age of 65 in 1935. He wrote, in German, «The Principles of Orthopaedics» and for many years worked virtually singlehanded, in dismal premises. Certainly, most cases of congenital dislocation of the hip in country were refered to him, and this led to the expertise manifested in this field by his pupil Erik Severin." David Le Vay, The History of Orthopaedics, p.326.