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BARTON, John Rhea (1794 – 1871)

BARTON, John Rhea (1794 – 1871)

1794 – 1871

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Unknown author Unknown author · Surgery journal · Public domain

1821 CE

#4411.1

Remarks on certain injuries of the bones in children.

On bending fractures in children.

1827 CE

#4451

On the treatment of anchylosis, by the formation of artificial joints.

Barton performed a femoral osteotomy between the greater and lesser trochanters to secure motion in an ankylosed hip. This has been called the first successful arthroplasty. Reprinted in Clin. Orthop., 1984, 182, 4-13.

1838 CE

#4415

Views and treatment of an important injury of the wrist.

“Barton’s fracture” of the radius.