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Sir Victor Horsley, Mr John Marshall, the Nervi Nervorum, and Pain
More Than a Century Ahead of Their Time
Joel A. Vilensky, PhD;
Sid Gilman, MD;
Kenneth Casey, MD
Arch Neurol. 2005;62:499-501.
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INTRODUCTION
Sir Victor Horsley (1857-1916) is best known for the many pioneering neurosurgical procedures that he developed during the late 19th century. These advances enabled surgery to be performed on the brain with an acceptable mortality level.1 Horsley’s research was not limited to neurosurgery; it also extended into basic neurology (eg, motor cortex function)2 and even general medicine, including many studies on the function of the thyroid gland.3
One of Horsley’s first basic research efforts involved the histologic characteristics of peripheral nerves. The effort was probably conducted late in 1883 and was described only in abstract form. It was first published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in January 18844 and later that year in similar, but not identical, abstracts in the Proceedings of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London5 and the Proceedings of the Physiological Society . . . [Full Text of this Article]
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Author Affiliations: Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Fort Wayne (Dr Vilensky); and Department of Neurology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor (Drs Gilman and Casey).
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