Operation for Repair of the Crucial Ligaments

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Ernest William Hey Groves (1872-1944)*, M.D., F.R.C.S., M.S., F.R.A.C.S., Hon. D.Sc., Bristol, Hon. LL.D., Belfast, was born in India and moved to Bristol, England at the age of 3. He started in general practice in Somerset, England, but eventually started his own nursing home at Bristol, ably assisted by his wife. In 1908 he published “Synopsis of Surgery.” In 1913 he was elected surgeon to the Bristol General Hospital and in 1914 became a Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, lecturing on the “Operative Treatment of Fractures.” Hey Groves was associated with Berkeley Moynihan in founding the British Journal of Surgery and the Association of Surgeons. He edited the British Journal of Surgery for 27 years from its beginning in 1913. He organized the West Country orthopedic unit, and was orthopedic surgeon to Lord Mayor Treloar's Hospital for Cripples. In 1922 he became chairman of the Department of Surgery of the Bristol General Hospital, Bristol, England. Although a general surgeon, his special interest in orthopedic surgery included a description of external transfixion pins for fractures and the grafting of dead animal bone and cadaveric human bone into the human patient. His translation from the German of Lorenz Bohler's “Modern Methods of Treating Fractures” was evidence of his literary, linguistic, and surgical ability, and of his appreciation of other men's work. In 1917 he wrote a classic article on repair of the crucial ligaments, part of which is reproduced here. G.A.H.

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