Frederic Jay Cotton

Biography

• Born 24 September 1869 Newport, Rhode Island
• 1890 – Graduated Harvard College
• 1894 – AM MD, Harvard Medical School
• 1894-1897 studied bacteriology in New York, Vienna. Established the laboratory of bacteriology at the Infants Hospital
• 1898 – Surgeon in the Spanish–American War
• 1902-1932 Surgeon to outpatients at the City Hospital
• 1917 – WW I, Major in the United States Army
• Professor of surgery at Tufts College Medical School, Boston
• Died 14 April 1938, Boston

Medical Eponyms

Cotton fracture (1915)

Fracture of the ankle involving the lateral malleolus, medial malleolus and distal posterior aspect of the tibia (posterior malleolus). [aka *trimalleolar fracture ]

• Cotton-Loder position (extreme palmar flexion and ulnar deviation in closed reduction of distal radius fractures)

Major Publications

• Cotton FJ. A new type of ankle fracture. JAMA. 1915;64:318–321. [Cotton fracture]
• Cotton FJ. Dislocations and Joint-Fractures. W.B. Saunders. 191
• Cotton FJ, Brickley WJ. Luxation of the ulna forward at the wrist (without fracture). Ann Surg. 1912; 55(3): 368–374.

References

• Lund, FB. Memoir: Frederic Jay Cotton 1869-1938. Ann Surg. 1939 Feb;109(2):317-9.
• Mostofi SB. Who’s Who in Orthopedics. Springer; 2005 pp80-81
• Eponymythology: Eponymous ankle and talus injuries. LITFL