Victor Alexander Haden Horsley was an #English #physiologist and #neurosurgeon who was a #pioneer…

Victor Alexander Haden Horsley was an #English #physiologist and #neurosurgeon who was a #pioneer in #surgery on the #brain and #spinalcord.

Before age 30, on 25 May 1886, he performed his first human #brainsurgery: excision of a scar.

In 1887, he worked with his former professor, Sir William Gowers, in the controversial first surgery to remove a spinal cord #tumour, treating an Army officer (age 45) with a spastic #paralysis of the lower extremities, enabling him to walk again.

He researched the #thyroid gland's function in regulating the body's growth and #metabolism, and how its malfunction was related to #myxedema and #cretinism.

He confirmed Louis Pasteur's development of an effective #RabiesVaccine, and advocated its use in England to prevent the disease.

In his research to find physiological analogs with humans, he investigated the #anatomy as diverse as woodpeckers, ducks and armadillos.

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