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A study of various types of joint disease with emphasis on radiologic/pathologic correlations. There are hundreds of x-rays and photomicrographs that supplement the text.
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Nathaniel Allison was born on May 22, 1876 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, the second son and third child of James W. and Addie (Schultz) Allison. The Allison family was of English colonial stock. Nathaniel was the namesake of his grandfather, a pioneer Missouri physician.
Allison attended Smith Academy in St. Louis. After one year he left the Academy and entered the Penn Charter School in Philadelphia with a view to a career in medicine. He entered Harvard College in 1896, and in the following year transferred to the Harvard Medical School, where he was graduated in 1901. Service as intern in the Boston Children's Hospital fixed Allison's ambition upon orthopedic surgery as his life work.
In 1904 Allison took up the practice of his specialty in St. Louis. Associating himself with the faculty of the Washington University School of Medicine as instructor in orthopedic surgery, he was advanced to associate in 1912, associate professor of clinical orthopedic surgery in 1917, and professor of clinical orthopedic surgery in 1919. With his teaching he took up research in the problems of his chosen work. He carried on experimental studies on the plastic surgery of bones, on the mobilization of ankylosed joints, and on the atrophy of bones through disuse. During these years he was on the surgical staff of Barnes Hospital and the St. Louis Children's Hospital.
In 1915 Allison joined the American Ambulance serving with the French army. In 1917 he returned to St. Louis and joined Base Hospital No. 21, organized at Washington University, with the grade of captain, and with it went to France in May, taking over a British hospital in Rouen. He was later ordered to Paris as a member of an army board convened to standardize splints and dressings. He took part in the preparation of a manual covering the work of the board and then was engaged in the work of procuring the manufacture and distribution of the splints and dressings adopted. He was appointed chief of orthopedic work in the zone of the army, and in this position personally performed much work on battle casualties. For this service he was later given the Distinguished Service Medal.
Returned from Europe, Allison, now a colonel, was assigned to duty on the surgical service at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington. While on this duty he went to Rome in September 1919 to represent the Army Medical Service at the Inter-Allied Congress of Surgery. Upon his return he resumed practice and teaching in St. Louis, and in 1920 he was made dean of the medical school of Washington University. His skill in administration brought about the union of the Martha Parsons Hospital with the university, and the establishment of a country branch of the Children's Hospital.
In 1923 he accepted the appointment of assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, and chief of the orthopedic department of the Massachusetts General Hospital. The next year he was promoted to the post of professor. In addition he served as director of the Boston School for Crippled Children.
After six years of accomplishment in Boston he accepted appointment as professor of surgery at Chicago University, and chief of the orthopedic service of the university's affiliated hospitals. He was closely associated with the services of the Gertrude Dunn Hicks and Adele McElwee Memorial hospitals and of the Home for Destitute and Crippled Children. He filled these posts from 1929 until early in 1932 when a heart ailment compelled him to give up all active work. He went to La Jolla, California, where he died but a few months later.
Allison was a prolific writer of journal articles. In addition he collaborated in a revised edition (1929) of Orthopedic Surgery (1923), by Sir Robert Jones and R. W. Lovett; published Fundamentals of Orthopædic Surgery in General Medicine and Surgery (1931), written in collaboration with R. B. Osgood, and Diagnosis in Joint Disease (1931), written in collaboration with R. K. Thormeley.
Allison was active in the section of orthopedic surgery of the American Medical Association and for several years prepared the fracture exhibits at the society's annual meetings. It was a matter of wonderment to his associates that he was able to accomplish so much professional and administrative work while always finding time for his diversions. Probably the most outstanding accomplishment of his career was his success in obtaining acceptance by the profession generally of the set of surgical splints that he devised for army use and later kept before the attention of his surgical associates. He received the Distinguished Service Medal for his contribution in orthopedic surgery.
(A study of various types of joint disease with emphasis o...)
(Excerpt from Interstate Medical Journal, Vol. 12: January...)
Allison was a fellow member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his many affiliations with medical societies the following were the most important: honorary member of the British Orthopedic Association, corresponding member Société des Chirurgiens of Paris, and fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the New England Surgical Society. He was also a member of the American Orthopedic Association, of which he was president in 1922.
Allison was short and slight of figure, with a quiet reserved manner.
In 1909 Allison was married to Marion Aldrich of Chicago.
