Sir Victor Ewings Negus, MS, FRCS (6 February 1887 – 15 July 1974) was a British surgeon who specialised in laryngology and also made fundamental contributions to comparative anatomy with his work on the structure and evolution of the larynx. He was born and educated in London, studying at King's College School, then King's College London, followed by King's College Hospital. The final years of his medical training were interrupted by the First World War, during which he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps. After the war, he qualified as a surgeon and studied with laryngologists in France and the USA before resuming his career at King's College Hospital where he became a junior surgeon in 1924.
In the 1920s, Negus worked on aspects of both throat surgery and the anatomy of the larynx, the latter work contributing to his degree of Master of Surgery (1924). His surgical innovations included designs for laryngoscopes, bronchoscopes, oesophagoscopes, an operating table, and tracheotomy equipment. His major publications were The Mechanism of the Larynx (1929) and his work on the clinical text Diseases of the Nose and Throat, starting with the fourth edition of 1937. Negus was also awarded several lectureships and published many medical papers and other works on comparative anatomy and laryngology. He became a senior surgeon at King's College Hospital in 1940 and a consulting surgeon in 1946.
Negus was one of the founders of the British Association of Otorhinolaryngologists, helping to establish his speciality as a discipline within the newly formed National Health Service. He was a member of numerous international and national otolaryngology organisations, and presided over the Fourth International Congress of Otolaryngology in London in 1949. In this period of his career following the Second World War he also worked on the anatomy of the paranasal sinuses, and played a key role in rebuilding and establishing collections of animal dissections used by comparative anatomists.
Negus, who married in 1929 and had two sons, retired in 1952, though he continued to publish on comparative anatomy and the history of medicine. His honours before and after retirement included the Fellowship of King's College, London (1945), an honorary degree (1950), the Lister Medal (1954), a knighthood (1956), honorary fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1949) and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (1958), and the Honorary Gold Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1969). He died in Hindhead, Surrey, aged 87 in 1974.
Sir Victor Ewings Negus, MS, FRCS (6 February 1887 – 15 July 1974) was a British surgeon who specialised in laryngology and also made fundamental contributions...
laryngologist VictorNegus, who worked with Jackson, improved the design of his endoscopes, including what came to be called the "Negus bronchoscope"...
on evolution. An example of a 20th-century comparative anatomist is VictorNegus, who worked on the structure and evolution of the larynx. Until the advent...
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British comparative anatomist VictorNegus, culminating in his monumental work The Mechanism of the Larynx (1929). Negus, however, pointed out that the...
natural knowledge and of the healing art". Recipients to date include Sir VictorNegus, Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Sir Stanford Cade (all three in 1969), Professor...
his right atrium, and takes an X-ray picture of it. British surgeon VictorNegus publishes The Mechanism of the Larynx. January 7 – Robert Bureau flies...
Lectures Year Recipient Lecture title 1810 Sir William Blizard 1929 VictorNegus "On the Mechanism of the Larynx" 1973 Paul Turner 1942 Herbert Haxton...
specimens from the collections of Thomas Henry Huxley, Karl Pearson, VictorNegus and Doris Mackinnon, and material from the Discovery Expedition and Challenger...
the war. All through 1941 and until September 1945 she was helping Sir VictorNegus to do ear, nose, and throat surgery rising to the job of registrar at...
opposition from certain provincial rulers caused a change and his title Negus or "King" was conferred without geographical qualification or definition...
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beginning of the Solomonic Dynasty, most Axumite and Zagwe rulers went by negus. Its use, from at least the reign of Menelik I onward, meant that both subordinate...
guests at the Bloxham Hotel – Harriet Sippel, Ida Gransbury and Richard Negus – who were found dead in their respective rooms with a monogrammed cufflink...
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for their colonial soldiers who fought in the Italian Army against the Negus troops).[citation needed] The currency used was the Italian East African...
third highest title in the kingdom besides Negusa Nagast (Emperor) and Negus (King) fell to the dynasties of the Yejju Oromo. Throughout this era, members...
Menelik in order to consolidate a purely numerical advantage. However, the Negus of Shewa refuses to join in the fight, preferring to see the two great Warlords...
conquest of Jerusalem in 614 CE. According to an early Muslim tradition, the Negus Sahama offered asylum to a group of Muslims who were fleeing from persecution...
Morocco, Dubai, and Hong Kong, the rapper's next work Negus in Natural Person (or simply Negus) premiered to the public on November 15, 2019, as a "listening...
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beverages Hippocras – Drink of spiced, sweetened wine List of hot drinks Negus – Spiced drink made of wine and hot water Rakomelo Sangria – Alcoholic beverage...
Lazetich Cleveland Rams T 5 7 39 Bob Wiese Detroit Lions FB 7 5 59 Fred Negus Cleveland Rams LB/C 30 7 314 Don Robinson Chicago Bears B 1946 3 6 21 Bob...
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