Victor Horsley

Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley ( born April 14, 1857 in Kensington, London, † July 16, 1916 in Amarah, Iraq ) was a British physiologist and neurologist.

Life and work

Horsley attended the University College London where he graduated with the B. p. From 1884 to 1890 he was Professor of Pathology at Brown University London. He worked as a surgeon in 1886 at the National Hospital for Paralysed and Epileptic in London. He was initially assistive surgeon ( Assistant Surgeon ) at University College Hospital in London and was there in 1900 Surgeon ( Surgeon ); He finished this position in 1906.

In World War I he served in the British army and came so to Egypt and Mesopotamia. Horsley died in 1916 of a heat stroke.

Horsley was a pioneer of brain surgery. He was the first who used intraoperative electrical stimulation for localization of epileptic foci 1884-1886. He was a precursor of the work of Wilder Penfield. He is also attributed to the implementation of the first laminectomy (1887 ).

In 1908 he invented together with his colleague Robert H. Clarke of University College London the Horsley -Clarke apparatus. This instrument allowed experimental and therapeutic interventions in deeper structures of vertebrate brains. He also introduced a stereotactic coordinate system for localization of brain structures.

Honors

1886 Horsley was elected as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society, in 1894, the Royal Medal awarded him. In 1902 he was knighted knighted.