The Orthopaedic Institute history

In his textbook of Operations of Surgery (1846) he devoted four out of 19 chapters to amputations, injuries of muscles and tendons, contractions of the leg and thigh, ankylosis, and clubfoot.

The first such person at Jefferson (after Gross, Mutter, and Pancoast) was Doctor Oscar Huntington Allis, an 1866 graduate of Jefferson.

Additionally, Eakins' Gross Clinic, painted in 1875, depicted Gross removing a sequestrum from the femur.

A few of them founded the American Orthopaedic Association in 1887, the first formal orthopaedic organization in the world.

After its foundation in 1896 under King Umberto I, the leadership of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute was entrusted to Alessandro Codivilla, with the aim of treating rickets and congenital deformities.

Before this formal naming occurred and allowed a specific focus to begin, disorders and injuries of the musculoskeletal system were cared for by that large group of practitioners known simply as surgeons. It is noteworthy that as orthopaedic surgery struggled for its separate identity and began to disassemble from general surgery, Jefferson became one of the first medical schools in the country to recognize the new specialty by founding a Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1904

The journal Chirurgia degli organi del movimento (currently known as Musculoskeletal Surgery) was founded in 1917 as a result of Putti’s work.

By 1935 the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery had been formed and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons established.

In 1936, during the Bologna Congress, the Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopedique (SICO) became the Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologie (SICOT), with Putti as its first vice-chairman.

In recognition of the importance of Putti in the field of orthopaedics and traumatology, the New England Journal of Medicine commemorated Putti upon his death in 1940, stating that he had developed the most well-known orthopaedic centre in the world.

In 1948, the institute was recognised as a first-class specialised hospital for orthopaedics and traumatology.