Ernest William Hey Groves

Ernest William Hey Groves and His Contributions to Orthopaedic Surgery

Ernest William Hey Groves was the son of an English civil engineer and was born in India on 20th June 1872. At the age of three, when his father retired, the family settled in Bristol. He inherited an aptitude for mechanics and took a B.Sc. in engineering. In London, while pursuing his science course, he saw an advertisement for a scholarship at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, which include...

A Surgical Adventure: An Autobiographical Sketch

A Case of Tubal Gestation Producing Severe Hemorrhage without Rupture, Associated with the Presence of an Accessory Fallopian Tube

The following case of extra-uterine gestation presents several points of great interest, both clinically and pathologically, which make it worth recording.

Five Cases of Pelvic Disease Treated by Laparotomy 1Read before the Bath and Bristol Branch of the British Medical Association, October 25th, 1899.

Tuberculosis of the Colon

Although the colon shows, with all other tissues of the body, a liability to invasion by both miliary and caseous tubercle, it has also a peculiar form of reaction, so unlike ordinary tuberculous manifestations that it has until recently been confounded with ?carcinoma. In 1891, however, Hartmann, in France, and Billroth, at Vienna, drew attention to the occurrence of large, hard,