Marius N. Smith-Petersen Collection, 1922-1953. WAM 21343-21402, 21406.

Marius N. Smith-Petersen Collection, 1922-1953. WAM 21343-21402, 21406.

Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip

Hip Dislocation, Congenital

Orthopedic Procedures

Smith-Petersen, Marius Nygaard, 1886-1953

Marius Nygaard Smith-Peterson was born in Norway on November 14, 1886. After coming to the United States with his mother in 1903, he went on to graduate from West Side High School in Milwaukee, WI in 1906. He then attended the University of Chicago before transferring to the University of Wisconsin, where he received his Bachelor of Science in 1910. He received a medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1914. While completing his surgical internship, he worked under Dr. Harvey Cushing at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. After gaining experience in medicine by assisting Dr. E. G. Brackett at the Massachusetts General Hospital, he went into practice for himself in 1922. Over the course of his surgical career, he focused much of his effort on the field of arthroplasty, and his work on the use of a mold in hip reconstruction gained him much notoriety among orthopedic surgeons. Alongside his surgical practice, he held various teaching positions at Harvard Medical School, beginning as an assistant instructor of orthopedic surgery and ending with a clinical professorship, before retiring from teaching in 1946. Despite his retirement from teaching, Smith-Peterson continued his medical practice until his death. He died on June 16, 1953, in Boston.

This collection contains a number of surgical tools created or used by Smith-Petersen in his orthopedic practice from 1925-1953.

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Separated from Harvard Medical Library collection H MS c609

Found in Harvard Medical Library artifact collections and removed by Warren Anatomical Museum curator 04/03/2014