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| Horsley, Sir Victor Alexander Haden |
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| 18571916, English surgeon and neurologist. A specialist in surgery of the endocrine glands and the nervous system, he devised a noted operation for spinal-cord tumor. He wrote Functions of the Marginal Convolutions (1884) and, with others, Experiments upon the Functions of the Cerebral Cortex (1888) and Alcohol and the Human Body (1907). | 1 | | See studies by S. Paget (1919) and C. J. Bond (1939). | 2 |
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