William John Little
William John Little (born August 6, 1810 in Whitechapel , London , † July 7, 1894 in Malling , Kent ) was an English orthopedist and pediatrician .
Life
He was the founder of the Royal Orthopedic Hospital . In 1862 he published a detailed description of deformed and sometimes developmentally retarded children. A spastic paralysis of the legs as a form of cerebral palsy is Little syndrome , also Little's disease or Crohn's Little known.
literature
- IM Siegel: Little big man: the life and genius of William John Little (1810-1894) . In: Orthop Rev. , 1988 Nov, 17 (11), pp. 1156, 1161-1166, PMID 3060808 (English) short biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Little Encyclopedia . Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, Volume 2, p. 62
- ↑ Little Syndrome . In: Roche Lexicon .
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| SURNAME | Little, William John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British orthopedist and pediatrician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1894 |
| Place of death | Malling |