SOLLING,HANS - DANISH PIONEER NEUROSURGEON

Hans Adolf Solling (1879-1945), working completely on his own in the s mall town of Horsens, was Denmark's first neurosurgeon. Selling was an admirable and talented man who performed major intracranial operation s on more than 130 patients suffering from trigeminal neuralgia, as we ll as treating epilepsy, cranio-trauma, brain tumors, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, and myelomeningoceles. Although not in the same league as Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), Vilhelm Magnus in Norway (1871-1929), and Herbert Olivecrona in Sweden (1891-1980), Solling was a true Danish pi oneer.