Word: trueta
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fathered this necessitous technique was Dr. Josep Trueta, onetime head of the department of surgery at Barcelona's General Hospital of Satalunya, now in London. Last fortnight the British Medical Journal reprinted an address which Dr. Trueta made before the Royal Society of Medicine. Society members found Dr. Trueta's methods "iconoclastic," "revolutionary," "momentous." All agreed that "closed plaster casts" such as his might prove to be "the methods of surgical election" in World...