First of all while at the Bellevue Hospital he and Dr. Frase Fuller, a surgeon of another Division, had performed the very first cases of wiring of simple fracture of the patella that had been done in the United States, and probably in the world. In those days this type of operation would be considered non-sense and inappropriate, since the idea of opening an uninfected knee joint was mad, because it would have certainly lead to a disaster, like an infection.