Lewis Albert Sayre and the Suspension Treatment of Spinal Disease
Abstract
THE LAY PUBLIC has long identified a surgeon by his or her "cutting" instruments. To incise with a scalpel, to dissect with a scissor, to sew with a needle, have been regarded as the trademarks of a busy practicing surgeon. Yet, the art and craft of surgery does not always require a knife, scissor, and needle. This was most dramatically demonstrated when Lewis Sayre authored his renowned monograph, Spinal Disease and Spinal Curvature: Their Treatment by Suspension and the Use of the...