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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 
great suffering 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, 1856, 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 
hAutoplastic 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 
