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 2 - The Other Side of Gower Street
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
When University College, with its medical department, was built on Gower Street as the original University of London, a small dispensary was opened close by as a teaching facility. It soon became evident, however, that the medical school would need an affiliated hospital to provide clinical training. The college opened a public fund and provided a site on the other side of Gower Street to erect its own hospital, and in 1834 the hospital (originally the North London Hospital but later renamed University College Hospital) was opened. It contained one hundred and thirty beds, but when completed was intended to house another one hundred patients. Over the following years, the hospital was enlarged until it became evident that complete rebuilding was necessary. Between 1897 and 1906 a new hospital was built, largely with funds donated by Sir John Blundell Maple, the owner of a large furniture and furnishings store close to the college.
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- Victor HorsleyThe World's First Neurosurgeon and His Conscience, pp. 10 - 21Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022