She was born May 12, 1820, to William âWENâ and Frances âFannyâ Nightingale in Florence, Italy. Her parents named her after the city she was born in; just over two years earlier they had named her sisterâFrances Parthenope âPartheââafter Parthenopolis, a Greek settlement now part of Naples, Italy.
Some of the conditions and diseases an orthopaedic surgeon treats include: 1  Abnormalities of the fingers and toes. 2  Back pain, ruptured disks, sciatica and scoliosis.  Bone tumors, muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy.
Orthopedics offers services to patients with congenital and acquired malformations of the musculoskeletal system (clubfoot, congenital dislocation of the hip, Legg-Perthes, cerebral palsy), fractures and their late sequelae, scoliosis and other spinal abnormalities, and hand injuries.