LITTLE, William John (1810 – 1894)
1810 – 1894
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1839 CE
#4322.1
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.
1843 CE–1844 CE
#4691.1
Course of lectures on the deformities of the human frame. Lecture IX.
Little’s description of congenital cerebral spastic diplegia resulted in the condition being named “Little’s disease”. See also No. 4735.
1853 CE
#4329
On the nature and treatment of the deformities of the human frame.
Little was the first eminent orthopedic surgeon in the British Isles. He studied under Stromeyer and, in 1838, he founded the Orthopaedic Institution, now the (Royal) National Orthopaedic Hospital, London. The above w…