HORSLEY, VICTOR ALEXANDER HADEN (1857 — ). An English surgeon and neurologist. He studied medicine in London, and in 1881 re ceived the gold medal in surgery from the Uni versity School. He has been president, of the :Medical Defense Union. and is Fellow of the Royal Medical Chirurgical Society; member of the Pathological, Clinical, and Physiological so cieties; corresponding member of the Biological Society of Paris. and of the Medical Society of Budapest ; honorary fellow of the American Sur gical Society and of the American Neurological Society; surgeon to the University College Hospi tal; professor of pathology in University College; surgeon to the National Hospital for par alyzed and epileptic; and secretary of the Govern ment Commission on Hydrophobia. The results of his researches in cerebral localization arc of the greatest value. and have made him eminent. lie is the author of a Report on Septic Bacteria (1SS2) articles in Heath's Dietionary of Surgery and Quain's Dictionary of Medicine (ISS3) Sur gical Reports of University College hospital (1882 and ISS3) ; "Functions of the Marginal Convolutions," in Proceedings of the Royal So ciety (1SS-1) and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1S88); "Analysis of Move ments Produced by Stimulating Ferrier's Cortical Arm Centre" (ih., ISSE-S9); "On the Thyroid and
Pituitary Bodies." in British Medical Journal (1838) ; The Pathology of Epilepsy and ra vine Chorea (l8S5-86); "On the Functions of the Thyroid Gland," in British Medical Journal (1885); Brain Surgery (1887) ; "On Localization of Disease in Cerebrum," in International Journal of the Medical Sciences (1887); Hydrophobia and Its Treatment (1888) ; An Experimented In restigation of the Central Motor Innervation of the Larynx, with Felix Senion (1890) ; The Structure and Functions Of the Brain and Spinal Cord (1892) ; with Boyce, Preliminary Report on (Edema (1893) ; with Schiffer, 'upon the Functions of the Cerebral Cortex ,(1888).