title: [History of orthopaedic surgery and "the gang of four"].
abstract: Four practitioners, Victor Menard, François Calot, Jacques Calvé, Etienne Sorel were the prominent surgeons in the Hospital of Berck sur Mer. They tried to set a real resistance against the terrible disease : the articular tuberculosis. Each of them proposed a means either of diagnosis or classification or surgical treatment.
authors.affiliation: Institut Calot Groupe Hopale, Berck-sur-Mer 62600 France.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Morin
authors.forename: Jean-Claude
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Leonard
mesh_terms: D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006782:Hospitals, Special / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000266:history / Q000628:therapy; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000266:history*