Hemophilic Arthropathies

The book, Hemophilic Arthropathies by Henry H. Jordan, is of value from two aspects. It is inadvertently an autobiography of a sincere student of a disease and as such portrays the man and his emotional involvement with his patients. The book also touches a much neglected aspect of the disease and here the major contribution deals with the details of plaster and brace care for these patients. Patients with extremity involvement in hemophilia having total or marked disability when first seen included 47 of a total of 56 patients. Of 21 who were bed-ridden 19 are now ambulatory. Such a result obviously represents a dogged devotion to a very difficult problem for both the patient and the orthopedic surgeon.