A glimpse into the history of the surgery of the brain : delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of England on December 8th, 1921 / by Sir Charles Ballance.
- Ballance, Charles A. (Charles Alfred), Sir, 1856-1936.
- Date:
- 1922
Licence: In copyright
Credit: A glimpse into the history of the surgery of the brain : delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of England on December 8th, 1921 / by Sir Charles Ballance. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![nitiy be Stiid of tbe memory of Victor Horsley, who gave his life for Britain in the Great War : . . . Strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful [in the brains], I he mere despair of surgery, he cures.^ The Steady Progress of Surgery and Neurology. The late Sir Theodore Martin, writing some time before the War, and expressing his views on the signs of the times, asked : Where are the giants ? Where are the Palmerstons, the Dis¬ raelis, the Gladstones in politics ? Where are the giants in literature ? Where in any walk of life are Alpine altitudes to be found ? It is quite easy to answer this question as far as surgery and neurology are concerned. The pageant of neuro¬ logy and surgery through which I have lived has been the most glorious of all time. I have heard Virchow and Helmholtz lecture, I have seen Pasteur and Lister at work, and I possessed the inestimable privilege of the friendship of Sir James Paget. And where is it possible to discover in all the world or in all time another group of names of Alpine altitude in neurology such as our country can produce in Jackson, Schafer, Perrier, Gowers, Sherrington, and ^ Macbeth, Act iv. Scene iii. H](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29980124_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
