Victor Negus

Sir Victor Ewings Negus ( born February 6, 1887 in Paddington, London, † 15 July 1974) was a British surgeon and physician ( ear, nose and throat medicine ).

Life

Ewings studied from 1909 at King's College in London. In World War I he was in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a doctor at the front, for example, in the Battle of Ypres, for which he was awarded the Mons Star. After the war he was house surgeon at the College of Diseases of the Throat in London. In 1921 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and traveled in Europe and the USA, where he studied under in Philadelphia at Chevalier Jackson ( 1865-1958 ). Back in England he improved the Laryngoscope and instruments of bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy. He won a gold medal at the London University in the Master of Science examination and in 1925 was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. In addition to his work as a surgeon, he conducted research on the anatomy and physiology of the nose and throat, which was reflected in several classical monographs, first published in a monograph in 1929 on the comparative anatomy of the larynx. He was Consulting Surgeon at King's College Hospital and was a fellow of King 's College.

He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and Edinburgh. 1939 to 1941 he was president of the Lister company. He was also president of the Department of Laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was president of the British Association of Otolaryngologists, the Thoracic Society, the Collegium Oto - rhino - laryngologica Amicitiae sacrum and the International Congress of Otolaryngology in 1949.

From 1947 he was for ear-nose -throat customer in the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, in whose honor Gold Medal he received in 1969, and he was later Board of Trustees of the Hunterian Collection of the Royal College of Surgeons, whose collection and history he some books wrote. He was an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester.

In 1954 he was awarded the Lister Medal. In 1956 he was knighted.

He was married since 1929 with Eve Rennie, with whom he had two sons, one of whom was a surgeon. His wife was an artist and illustrated some of his books.

Writings

  • The mechanism of the larynx, St. Louis, Mosby, 1929
  • The comparative anatomy and physiology of the larynx, 1949, New York, Hafner 1962
  • The comparative anatomy of the nose and accessory Sinuses, Edinburgh, London, E. and S. Livingstone, 1958
  • The biology of respiration, Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1965
  • Co-author of the revision of St. Clair Thomson Diseases of the nose and throat, 4th Edition, Cassel and Company, 1937, 4th edition Appleton - Century- Crofts, New York, 1947 ( under joint authorship )
  • Artistic collections of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, E. and S. Livingstone, 1967
  • History of the Trustees of the Hunterian Collection, E. and S. Livingstone, 1966
  • Negus Introduction to the comparative anatomy of the nose and paranasal Sinuses, Hunterian Lecture in 1954, Annals Roy. Coll. Surgeons 1954
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