The Classic Acute Pyogenic Arthritis of the Hip: An Operation Giving Free Access and Effective Drainage

摘要

Gathome Robert Girdlestone was born in 1881, the son of the Rev. R.B. Girdlestone, Honorary Canon of Christ Church, Oxford . His early education was at Charterhouse, then he read medicine at New College, Oxford. Girdlestone received his subsequent medical training at St. Thomas' Hospital, London, completing his house appointment there. He subsequently went to Oswestry, where he was influenced by Sir Robert Jones. During WW I he returned to Oxford to assume charge of a military hospital that eventually had over 400 beds. The Wingfield Convalescent Home, an "old fashioned institution," was located in Headington, then a village near Oxford, and Girdlestone's initial military hospital consisted largely of open air huts on the Wingfield grounds.