An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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ALBEE, Fred Houdlett

2 entries
  • 4384.1

Transplantation of a portion of the tibia into the spine for Pott’s disease. A preliminary report.

J. Amer. med. Ass., 57, 885-86, 1911.

The beginning of bone graft surgery as a planned, carefully designed procedure. Albee was the first to employ living bone grafts as internal splints. See No. 5757.



Subjects: ORTHOPEDICS › Orthopedic Surgery & Treatments › Bone Grafts, ORTHOPEDICS › Orthopedic Surgery & Treatments › Spine, TRANSPLANTATION
  • 5757

Bone-graft surgery.

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1915.

Albee was the first to employ living bone grafts as internal splints. He used cutting machines and saws to make inlaid, perfectly-fitting grafts. See especially his “Transplantation of a portion of the tibia into the spine for Pott’s disease. A preliminary report”, J. Amer. med. Ass., 1911, 57, 885-86. See No. 4384.1.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Tuberculosis › Tuberculous Spondylitis (Pott's Disease), ORTHOPEDICS › Orthopedic Surgery & Treatments › Bone Grafts, TRANSPLANTATION