ABSTRACT
Nicholas Andry (1658-1742), Professor of Medicine at the University of Paris and Dean of the Faculty of Physick, was the first figure after Hippocrates to signal a change in orthopaedic medicine. In 1741, at the age of 81, he published the first book on orthopaedic surgery, called L’Orthopédie. Of the title, Andry said:
. . . I have formed it of two Greek Words, Orthos, which signifies streight, free from Deformity, and Pais, a Child. Out of these two Words I have compounded that of Orthopaedia, to express in one Term the Design I propose, which is to teach the different Methods of preventing and correcting the Deformities of Children.
