Edward Hickling Bradford / by George H. Monks.

  • Monks, George H. (George Howard)
Date:
[1927]
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Credit: Edward Hickling Bradford / by George H. Monks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • TlDY MO'OI COLLECT! Reprint from SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS, October, 1927, pages 564-566 EDWARD HICKLING BRADFORD By GEORGE H. MONKS, M.D., F.A.C.S., Boston, Massachusetts Dr. BRADFORD was a prominent figure in the group of Boston surgeons ' during the last part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth. While he always maintained a lively interest in general surgery, and held, at times, a number of positions which required much purely surgical work, his special concern and his principal activities lay along the lines of orthopedic surgery, in which specialty he was one of the outstanding pioneers in America. He was born in Boston, June 9, 1848, being descended from old New England stock—an early governor of the State being one of his direct ancestors. After a preliminary education in the preparatory schools, he entered Harvard College, and graduated in 1869. He then began his medical education at the Harvard Medical School, where he graduated in 1873, receiving the degree of M.D. Crossing, then, to Europe, he passed two years in visiting the various medical centers, where he attended lectures and clinics. While in England he worked many months with Dr. Owen Thomas, of Liverpool, a pioneer in joint surgery, and the inventor of the splint called after his name. Upon his return to America, he went to New York, and there followed the surgical work of Dr. Charles Fayette Taylor. Finally he came back to Boston, where he established himself, and began the practice of his profession. For a long period he worked with Dr. Buckminster Brown at the House of the Good Samaritan. This institution was the first one in Boston where the bone and joint diseases of children were regarded as belonging to a special branch of surgery, and where, as such, they were carefully studied and treated. In course of time Dr. Bradford succeeded Dr. Brown as surgeon in charge of this institution. Early in his career, he was invited to join the surgical department of the Boston City Hospital, and of the Boston Dispensary, and also that of the Children’s Hospital, at all of which institutions he worked hard and faithfully for many years, gaining much valuable experience, and being gradually promoted from one grade to another until in all of them he reached the highest position. As time went on, he devoted more and more of his attention and energies to orthopedic surgery; and for this reason he became more and more closely associated with the Children’s Hospital; and, it was largely here that he thought out and made known the correct pathology of congenital dislocation of the hip, and later