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PROF. VITTORIO PUTTI, the eminent orthopædic surgeon, who died recently, was born on March 1, 1880, at Bologna, where he received his medical education and qualified in 1903. For eleven years he was assistant to Alessandro Codivilla at the Rissoli Institute at Bologna, of which he became director in 1914. In 1909 he was appointed lecturer in orthopædics and in 1914 professor in this subject at his Alma Mater. In 1917 he founded the journal Chirurgia degli Organi di Movimento, to which Bibliografia Ortopedica, founded by him three years later, containing summaries of current orthopædic literature, formed a useful supplement. Putti introduced many new orthopaedic operations and made numerous valuable contributions to the literature of his speciality, particularly on congenital dislocation of the hip, osteoarticular tuberculosis, for the electro-therapeutic treatment of which he founded the Codivilla Institute at Cortone d'Ampesso as a branch of the Rizzoli Institute, diseases of the vertebral column, transplantation of muscles and Madelung's deformity. Enjoying an international reputation, he received invitations to lecture in several foreign countries including Great Britain, where he had many friends.
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ROLLESTON, J. Prof. V, Putti. Nature 147, 291 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147291a0
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