1803 SCARPA, Antonio (1752 – 1832)

Memoria chirurgica sui piedi torti congenita dei fanciulli.

First accurate description of the pathological anatomy of congenital club-foot. English translation, Edinburgh, 1818.

GMN 4308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5497

1833 STROMEYER, Georg Friedrich Ludwig (1804 – 1876)

Die Durchschneidung der Achillessehne, als Heilmethode des Klumpfusses, durch zwei Fälle erläutert.

Successful tenotomy for clubfoot established the reputation of Stromeyer as an orthopedic surgeon.

GMN 4320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5537

1839 LITTLE, William John (1810 – 1894)

On the nature of club-foot and analogous distortions.

Little suffered from club-foot himself. This is the greatest English classic on the subject. See No. 4329.

GMN 4322.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5540

1839 BROWN, John Ball (1784 – 1862)

Operations on club-feet.

Brown was the first surgeon in the United States to specialize in orthopedics, founding the Orthopedic Infirmary of the City of Boston (soon renamed the Boston Orthopedic Institution) in 1838. Brown was also the first…

GMN 4322.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5541

1939 KITE, Joseph Hiram (1891 – 1986)

Principles involved in the treatment of congenital clubfoot.

Kite’s method, involving “a series of plaster casts and wedgings, without the use of anesthetics, forcible manipulations, or operative procedures”, became standard practice.

GMN 4403.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6049