An Even Keel in Orthopædics [Abridged]

The Spine, the Wood and the Trees

“…Our most recent Honorary Member, addressing this Section as President in 1953, spoke on many subjects, among them the disc. He said: 'Some surgeons have found in the intervertebral disc not a jelly-like nucleus pulposus but a glittering nugget of gold' (Burrows 1953).…”