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Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease. He wrote a biography of physician William Osler in three volumes.
Oct 24, 2016 · Having established himself as a surgeon with an early interest in neurosurgery, Cushing was one of the very first advocates of the Riva-Rocci sphygmomanoter, in around 1900, as a means to measure peri-operative blood pressure.
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Sep 9, 2020 · At Yale, Harvey Cushing was a B student. Impressive, but perhaps not the GPA expected of someone who would go on to revolutionize medicine like few ever have. Yet after thriving at Harvard...
Harvey Cushing: the man, the surgeon and the father. Yale Medicine Magazine, 2006 - Spring. A new biography of the pioneering neurosurgeon explores different facets of the man who revolutionized brain surgery.
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Harvey Williams Cushing (born April 8, 1869, Cleveland—died Oct. 7, 1939, New Haven, Conn., U.S.) was an American surgeon who was the leading neurosurgeon of the early 20th century. Cushing graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1895 and then studied for four years at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, under William Stewart Halsted.
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Cushing was at the height of his career as neurosurgeon, researcher, and clinical teacher in the 1920s. He was chief of surgery at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Patients were sent to him from near and far, so that by 1931, he had completed 2000 tumor operations.
Nov 14, 2020 · Cushing was a major pioneer in neurosurgery and is called the father of neurosurgery by most. Cushing graduated from Yale University in 1891, studied medicin...
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