William H. Bennett (surgeon)

Sir William Henry Bennett, FRCS, (1852 - 1931) was a British surgeon. He introduced London doctors to massage as a treatment modality for new fractures in 1898 [Bennett. "Lectures on the use of massage. . ." etc. (numerous editions).] and he established a department of massage at St George's Hospital where he was a senior surgeon. However, his most important contribution to medical science was a paper in which he introduced the surgical procedure of posterior rhizotomy for the relief of spasmodic pain in a lower extremity. [Bennett. "On spasmodic pain."] "Vide:" Garrison & Morton bibliography number 4861.1 [Morton. Third edition.] and Wilkins. [Wilkins. "Neurosurgical classics."]

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References

* Bennett, William H. (1909), "Lectures on the use of massage and early movements in recent freactures." New York, Bombay & Calcutta: Longmans, Green & Co., fourth edition.
* Bennett, William H. (1889), "A case in which acute spasmodic pain in the left lower extremity was completely relieved by subdural division of the posterior roots of certain spinal nerves, all other treatment having proved useless; death from sudden collapse and cerebral hæmorrhage on the twelfth day after the operation at the commencement." Journal: "Medical Chirurgical Transactions," vol. 72, pp. 329-48.
* Morton, Leslie T. (1970), "A medical bibliography (Garrison and Morton)." Philadelphia & Toronto: J. B. Lippincott Company, p. 559.
* Wilkins, Robert H. (1992), "Neurosurgical Classics." New York: Thieme Medical Publishers, p. 129.

External links

* [http://www.archive.org/details/lecturesonuseofm00bennrich University of California Libraries] Internet copy of Bennett's 1910 edition of: "Lectures on the use of massage. . ." etc.