Harold R Bohlman, MD

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Harold R. Bohlman (1893–1979), orthopaedic surgeon, introduced vitallium as a “substance” to replace injured bones and joints, and specialised in the fields of traumatic surgery, pathology and surgery, and hip and knee surgery at hospitals in the Baltimore, Maryland area. Born near Adams, he lived and attended a rural school near Pickrell, graduated from Beatrice High School in 1914, and from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa in 1919 after becoming a pilot in the U.S. Air Service during World War I. A graduate of John Hopkins Medical School in 1923, he performed the first hip joint replacement using vitallium on September 28, 1940 in Columbia, South Carolina. In 1939 Harold Bohlman, according to the work of Venable, developed the first femoral prosthesis out of vitallium. This replaced the head of the femur and the cartilage which covers it. Bohlman choose to fix the metal head at the cortical external femoral neck by a nail.

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