19 Facts About Victor Horsley

From 1884 to 1890, Horsley was Professor-Superintendent of the Brown Institute.

Victor Horsley was a supporter of women's suffrage and was an opponent of tobacco and alcohol.

Victor Horsley's given name, Victor Alexander, was given to him by Queen Victoria.

On 4 October 1887, Victor Horsley and Eldred married at St Margaret's, Westminster.

Victor Horsley was knighted in the 1902 Coronation Honours, receiving the accolade from King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October that year.

Victor Horsley soon rose up to the position of vice president of the National Temperance League and the president of the British Medical Temperance Association.

Victor Horsley was the first physician to remove a spinal tumor, in 1887, by means of a laminectomy.

Victor Horsley developed many practical neurosurgical techniques, including the hemostatic bone wax, the skin flap, the ligation of the carotid artery to treat cerebral aneurysms, the transcranial approach to the pituitary gland and the intradural division of the trigeminal nerve root for the surgical treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.

Between 1884 and 1886, Victor Horsley was the first to use intraoperative electrical stimulation of the cortex for the localization of epileptic foci in humans, preceding Fedor Krause and Wilder Penfield.

Victor Horsley was a pioneer in the study of the functions of the thyroid gland.

Victor Horsley studied myxedema and cretinism, which are caused by a decreased level of the thyroid hormones, and established for the first time, in experiments with monkeys, that they could be treated with extracts of the gland.

Victor Horsley, who had been a keen rifle shot when serving in the Artists' Rifles as a medical student, investigated the effect of gunshot wounds on the brain, experimenting with animals provided by a butcher and using the recently issued Lee-Metford rifle.

Victor Horsley concluded that the immediate cause of death that follows was due to respiratory failure, not heart failure.

Victor Horsley was a pioneer in neurosurgery and operated on a total of 44 patients.

Victor Horsley authored the book Functions of the Marginal Convolutions and, as a co-author, Experiments upon the Functions of the Cerebral Cortex and Alcohol and the Human Body.

Victor Horsley was a Liberal Party supporter and contested the December 1910 General election as a Liberal candidate for the London University seat.

Victor Horsley strongly supported the Liberals' welfare state initiative, the National Insurance Act of 1911, despite strong opposition from most of his medical colleagues.

In 1910, Victor Horsley was commissioned as a captain in the Territorial Army, in the 3rd London General Hospital of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Victor Horsley is credited with the invention of the "Victor Horsley Hook", a device which he used to avulse the trigeminal nerve.