Fractures were all too common in farm country and standard treatment protocols sometimes caused more harm than good. As the story goes, Mr. DePuy learned during sales calls that when physicians immobilized fractures with wood splints made from barrel staves, splinters often lodged under a patient’s skin and caused infection. Presented with this problem, the 32-year-old salesman dreamed up a solution that gave birth to commercial orthopedic manufacturing. He invented the fiber, and then the wire, splint. More than a century after he sold his first splint, Warsaw, County seat Indiana,USA is home to nearly two-thirds of the world’s market-share for orthopedic devices, held principally by Biomet, Zimmer Holdings, and DePuy Orthopedics, now a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.This card was sent by Anita from Indiana.
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