Leonardo Gigli

He returned to Florence in March 1894 to work at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, and continued as a proponent of the lateral pubiotomy using the wire saw despite the lack of support from colleagues in Italy.

The saw is passed subperiosteally through the greater sciatic notch, from where it is drawn lateralward to perform Salter's single iliac osteotomy in the treatment of hip dysplasia.

In both cases, the saw allows an osteotomy to be performed by cutting away from critical neurovascular structures: in Salter, away from sciatic nerve and superior gluteal artery, in Bernese, away from the corona mortis.

Those allow the reader to reconstruct the author's progression, particularly for what concerns the development of the surgical practice adopted by Gigli in the obstetrical and gynaecological field, with the use of the wire saw.

[7] The second fond is made of approximately 200 works dealing with medicine, and more precisely with obstetrics and gynaecology, mostly in Italian and German language.