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Chapter 15 - A Surgeon Goes to War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2022

Michael J. Aminoff
Michael J. Aminoff
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In 1914, Europe blundered into war. Horsley regarded it as “an insane folly” and hoped that it would lead the peoples of Central Europe to rise up and remove their rulers from power, that democracy and universal suffrage would follow. He did not foresee that an uprising against the government would occur in Russia, one of the allies but a country that he detested because of its autocratic barbarism.

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Victor Horsley
The World's First Neurosurgeon and His Conscience
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Michael J. Aminoff, University of California, San Francisco
  • Book: Victor Horsley
  • Online publication: 06 January 2022
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  • Online publication: 06 January 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009071734.016
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