H. Winnett Orr

Hiram Winnett Orr, known as H. Winnett Orr, was an American orthopedic surgeon, born in Pennsylvania on 17 March 1877 and raised in Nebraska, where he lived for the rest of his life until his death on 11 October 1956. He is credited, more than any other person, with the invention of an effective method that combined plaster casts with surgery to lower infection rates in the treatment of open and compound fractures, at a time before antibiotics were widely adopted. This entry rests on the short lead of his Wikipedia article, which does not describe his training, posts or publications, so those matters are left for a deeper pass.