The pages of the modern Engineer often report how the efforts of engineers are contributing to the progress of medical science.rnIndeed, the revolution has been more than 50 years in the making, as a 1959 review of'biomechanics' in The En0neer shows.rnIt is unrealistic to expect the surgeon, with the wide ranges of study necessary in his medical education, also to make himself familiar with the parallel range of study followed by the engineer, and the need for collaboration is clear.'rnThe article focuses on bones and the field of 'osteosynthesis' (the replacement of a section of bone by an artificial material), reasoning that diseased bone was formerly dealt with by amputation.rnIt asked readers to consider an illustrated 'mushroom' replacement of the head of the femur that was designed by a French surgeon.
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