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Nicolas Andry was born in 1658 in Lyons, France, and had a long Parisian career. He wrote a book entitled "L'orthopédie ou l'art de prévenir et de corriger dans les enfants les difformités du corps" just before his death, which was the first to use the term orthopedics.