KILVINGTON,BASIL - UNKNOWN PIONEER OF PERIPHERAL-NERVE REPAIR

In the early years of the present century, a group of experiments asse ssing the results of the surgical repair of peripheral nerves and spin al roots was performed by Basil Kilvington. The outcome of the experim ents was assessed using both electrophysiological and morphological te chniques. Much of Kilvington's work remained unrecognized and was thus repeated at a later date. Kilvington's role in the early history of t he surgical repair of nerves appears to have been forgotten and his su bstantial and prophetic discoveries deserve better recognition.