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Jun 11, 2010 · Dr. Salter was making revisions for the fifth edition when he died, aged 85, from complications of Parkinson's disease in Toronto on May 10. He was "the late 20th-century icon" of orthopedic ...
Alfred Salter(16 June 1873 – 24 August 1945)[1]was a British medical practitionerand Labour Partypolitician. [2] Early life. [edit] Salter was born in Greenwichin 1873, the son of Walter Hookway Salter and Elizabeth Tester. Following education at The John Roan School, Greenwich, he went on to study medicine at Guy's Hospital, London.[2]
1978. Witnessing severe pain and long recoveries after immobilization, Dr. Robert Salter became an advocate for his innovative concept of “Continuous Passive Motion” in post-operative recovery. Skin, Bones, Muscles & Joints. He demonstrated that continuous motion after surgery facilitated the proper healing of joints.
- A Promising Youth
- Bermondsey’s Call
- Turning to Politics
- Losing Their “Little Ray of Sunshine”
- Bermondsey’s Revolution:“There Is No Wealth But Life”
- Pacifist
- The Salters’ Legacy
- References
Alfred Salter was born in Greenwich, UK, on June 16, 1873, the eldest of four children, to a family of modest means. He showed early promise in medicine, and at age sixteen, won a scholarship from the John Roan School that provided him the means to study at Guy’s Hospital in London. There Salter was an outstanding student who impressed his instruct...
At the time, Britain’s health was in a perilous state. The Industrial Revolution that had ushered in technological advancement also led to a dramatic shift in the urban landscape with significant consequences. Evocative snapshots of the times were captured by writers including Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Friedrich Engels. Dickens’ novel...
Nevertheless Salter understood the limits of his individual effort as a physician. Under Lidgett’s influence, he joined the Liberal Party to campaign for better conditions, recognizing adequate nutrition, housing, and sanitation to be preventive medicines for the laboring poor7. He was elected to the Bermondsey Council in 1903 and to the London Cou...
Personal tragedy struck in June 1910. Their eight-year-old daughter Joyce, well loved throughout the borough as “our little ray of sunshine,” caught scarlet fever for the third time and became seriously ill. Despite receiving the best care, she succumbed to the disease. This blow challenged the Salters’ core convictions, as they had avoided shieldi...
In 1922 Alfred was elected as member of parliament for Bermondsey and Ada became its mayor, respectively. Despite numerous disappointments, the Salters and other pioneers of the Bermondsey Labour Council campaigned passionately to prevent unnecessary deaths and improve the health of their borough. Salter believed that there is no wealth but life, a...
Perhaps more than most, Salter recognized the human cost of war and advocated passionately against both World Wars. Amidst the social upheaval and emotional turmoil unmasked during World War One, he remained unapologetically outspoken, even in the face of reactionary backlash and vitriol from his own community. Salter campaigned determinedly to sav...
After a lifelong career working tirelessly for his patients, constituents, and community, Salter died on August 24, 1945, at Guy’s Hospital, three years after Ada’s passing. At the end of his journey, he did not regret his sacrifices. In November 2014, Southwark Council announced that it had raised the full amount needed to replace the stolen statu...
Brockway F. (1949). Bermondsey story: the life of Alfred Salter (p. 4).London: George Allen and Unwin.Ibid., p. 6.Dickens C. (1837). Oliver Twist. Chapter L.Brown M. (2006). Making sense of modernity’s maladies: health and disease in the Industrial Revolution. Endeavor,30(3), 108-112.May 12, 2010 · Funeral service will be held at St. Paul's Anglican Church, 227 Bloor St. E., Toronto, Friday, May 14th at 10:00 a.m. Instead of flowers, please send donations to The Hospital for Sick Children ...
Dr. Salter’s clinical contributions to pediatric orthopedics are enormous and start with his classification of growth plate injuries in partnership with Dr. Robert Harris in 1962. 2 This classification is a modification of others but has stood the test of time and remains a classic, with particular emphasis on the location of the injury and eventual prognosis.
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Aug 1, 2023 · His innovations and contributions to pediatric orthopaedics are numerous and have stood the test of time. In 2020, the Journal of Orthopaedics listed the most impactful pediatric orthopaedic literature, and Dr. Salter’s name is cited in 56 of the top 100 referenced papers. As time passes, the name and the impact made remain. Yet who was this man?
