Book contents
- Victor Horsley
- Victor Horsley
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Early Days
- Chapter 2 The Other Side of Gower Street
- Chapter 3 At the Brown
- Chapter 4 Dividing the Indivisible: The Localization of Cortical Functions
- Chapter 5 The Making of a Specialty
- Chapter 6 The Grammar of Neurosurgery: Technical Underpinnings
- Chapter 7 The Neurosurgery of Specific Disorders
- Chapter 8 Measures of the Man
- Chapter 9 The Politics of Protection
- Chapter 10 Not So Trivial Pursuits: The Slide into Politics
- Chapter 11 Antivivisectionist Claims and Clamor
- Chapter 12 Bitter Tears: Horsley and the Suffragist Movement
- Chapter 13 Last Orders: The Temperance Movement
- Chapter 14 Syphilis and the Public Health
- Chapter 15 A Surgeon Goes to War
- Chapter 16 Aftermaths and Appraisals
- Book part
- Index
- References
Chapter 7 - The Neurosurgery of Specific Disorders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2022
- Victor Horsley
- Victor Horsley
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Early Days
- Chapter 2 The Other Side of Gower Street
- Chapter 3 At the Brown
- Chapter 4 Dividing the Indivisible: The Localization of Cortical Functions
- Chapter 5 The Making of a Specialty
- Chapter 6 The Grammar of Neurosurgery: Technical Underpinnings
- Chapter 7 The Neurosurgery of Specific Disorders
- Chapter 8 Measures of the Man
- Chapter 9 The Politics of Protection
- Chapter 10 Not So Trivial Pursuits: The Slide into Politics
- Chapter 11 Antivivisectionist Claims and Clamor
- Chapter 12 Bitter Tears: Horsley and the Suffragist Movement
- Chapter 13 Last Orders: The Temperance Movement
- Chapter 14 Syphilis and the Public Health
- Chapter 15 A Surgeon Goes to War
- Chapter 16 Aftermaths and Appraisals
- Book part
- Index
- References
Summary
As Horsley’s workload increased at the National Hospital, it became necessary to make new surgical appointments to support him. Charles Ballance (1856–1936) came on staff in 1891 but was somewhat overshadowed by Horsley – whom he had assisted in the famous operation on Captain Gilbey (discussed in Chapter 5) – and resigned in 1908. He became a celebrated aural and general surgeon in his own right. Donald Armour (1869–1933) and the technically brilliant Percy (“Pretty Percy”) Sargent (1873–1933) both assisted Horsley in the early years of the twentieth century, became assistant surgeons at the hospital in 1906, and full surgeons three years later, after Ballance had resigned. All three made their mark in the field of surgical neurology, helping to establish the tradition of neurosurgical excellence at the hospital. But it was Horsley more than anyone who was responsible for advancing the emerging specialty of neurosurgery and who developed a school of followers that included Wilfred Trotter (p. 00), Armour, and Sargent in Britain, Ernest Sachs (p. 00) in the United States, Edward Archibald in Canada, Thierry de Martel in France, and Vilhelm Magnus in Norway.
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- Victor HorsleyThe World's First Neurosurgeon and His Conscience, pp. 70 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022