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Mr. Jordan was a valued contributor to medical science 

 by a new method of treating false joints. A difficult class 

 of surgical cases is presented when the fractured surfaces of 

 bone refuse to reunite, or else unite so badly as to cause 

 oreat suiferinof and even loss of the use of a limb. For the 

 cure of these so-called " false joints," and the effecting of a 

 speedy, safe, and satisfactory reunion of the fractured bones, 

 Mr. Jordan, in the year 1854, invented and applied a new 

 and exceedingly simple mode of treatment. His plan was 

 recognised not only by his professional brethren in Man- 

 chester, but in June, 185G, the eminent Paris surgeon, 

 Professor Nelaton, in a public lecture to his class, described 

 the method as " a happy innovation, and one capable of 

 receiving numerous applications." The priority of Mr. 

 Jordan's claim to this invention was beyond doubt. Find- 

 ing, however, that a French surgeon was introducing the 

 method as his own, Mr. Jordan proceeded to Paris in 1860, 

 where he published in French a treatise, illustrated with 

 three plates, entitled "Traitement des Pseudarthroses par 

 I'Autoplastic Periostique," which not only effectually ex- 

 tinguished any rival claim, but comprised a full and clear 

 exposition of the mode of treatment in all its successive 

 stages, and gave to the author a European reputation. 



It was at one time proposed that some mark of her 

 Majesty's favour should be solicited by Mr. Jordan's friends, 

 to honour one who had conferred so much credit upon his 

 profession in Manchester, and so much advantage upon the 

 community at large ; but the modesty of the veteran self- 

 sacrificing surgeon shrunk from this distinction, and at his 

 instance the movement was stopped. 



In the last annual report it was stated, with reference to 

 the benefaction which the late Natural History Society 

 provided for the promotion of the study of Natural History 

 in Manchester, under the guardianship of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society, that the Owens College would at 



