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 1 - Early Days
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
It was a year of contrasts, culture, and crises. In 1857, James Buchanan presided over a United States in which African Americans were not regarded as citizens and slaves could not sue for their freedom. Queen Victoria sat comfortably on the British throne with Palmerston as her prime minister, while India mutinied. Charlotte Brontë, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope were among the many writers with new books published during the year, and new musical offerings by Franz Liszt and Giuseppe Verdi were to be heard in the concert halls. In America an economic crisis led to recession, the collapse of a New York financial institution, and a run on the banks.
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- Victor HorsleyThe World's First Neurosurgeon and His Conscience, pp. 1 - 9Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022