Victor Ewings Negus

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Sir Victor Ewings Negus (born February 6, 1887 in Paddington , London , † July 15, 1974 ) was a British surgeon and physician ( ear, nose and throat medicine ).

Life

Ewings studied from 1909 at King's College in London. During the First World War he was in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a doctor at the front, for example in the Battle of Ypres , for which he received the Mons Star. After the war he was a resident surgeon at the College of Diseases of the Throat in London. In 1921 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and traveled to Europe and the USA, where he studied with Chevalier Jackson (1865-1958) in Philadelphia . Back in England he improved the laryngoscopes and instruments of bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy . He won a gold medal from the University of London in the Masters of Science examination and became Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1925 . In addition to his work as a surgeon, he researched the anatomy and physiology of the nasopharynx, which was reflected in several classic monographs, first in a 1929 monograph on the comparative anatomy of the larynx. He was a Consulting Surgeon at King's College Hospital and became a Fellow of King's College.

He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and Edinburgh. From 1939 to 1941 he was President of the Lister Society. He was also President of the Laryngology Department of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was President of the British Association of Otolaryngologists, the Thoracic Society, the Collegium Oto-rhino-laryngologica Amicitiae Sacrum, and the International Congress of Otolaryngology in 1949.

From 1947 he was on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons for Otorhinolaryngology, whose honorary gold medal he received in 1969, and he was later chairman of the trustees of the Hunterian Collection of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, about whose collection and history he was wrote some books. He was an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester.

In 1954 he received the Lister Medal . In 1956 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor .

He had been married to Eve Rennie since 1929, with whom he had two sons, one of whom became a surgeon. His wife was an artist and illustrated some of his books.

Fonts

  • The mechanism of the larynx , St. Louis, Mosby 1929
  • The comparative anatomy and physiology of the larynx , 1949, New York, Hafner 1962
  • The comparative anatomy of the nose and accessory sinuses , Edinburgh, London, E. and S. Livingstone 1958
  • The biology of respiration , Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1965
  • Co-author of the revision of St. Clair Thomson Diseases of the nose and throat , 4th edition, Cassel and Company, 1937, 4th edition Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York 1947 (under joint authorship)
  • Artistic collections of the Royal College of Surgeons of England , E. and S. Livingstone 1967
  • History of the Trustees of the Hunterian Collection , E. and S. Livingstone 1966
  • Introduction to the comparative anatomy of the nose and paranasal sinuses. In: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Volume 15, Number 3, September 1954, pp. 141-171, PMID 13198060 , PMC 2377799 (free full text).

Web links

  • G. Bateman: In memoriam. Sir Victor Ewings Negus. In: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Volume 55, Number 4, October 1974, pp. 201-202, PMID 4607981 , PMC 2388467 (free full text).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Banerjee Notable men in ENT - Victor Negus , Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Volume 47, 1995, p. 66. Short portrait
personal data
SURNAME Negus, Victor Ewings
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British surgeon and ear, nose and throat specialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Paddington , London
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 1974