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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 .
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Oct 24, 2016 · Harvey Cushing is well known as being the father of modern neurological surgery and his portrait brands the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He was the youngest of 10 children and from medical lineage with his father, grandfather and great-grandfather all being general medical practitioners.
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.
Harvey Cushing, a major figure in neurosurgery, was born on April 8, 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Yale University in 1891, studied medicine at Harvard Medical School and received his medical degree in 1895.
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.
Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) was the founder of neurosurgery as a surgical specialty. It was Cushing who developed the painstaking procedures and instrumentation so that entering the brain for removal of tumors would be not only feasible, but effective.
Sep 9, 2020 · Building on insights from his earlier dog and human autopsy studies at Hopkins, Cushing discovered that patients with the classic signs of what we now call Cushing syndrome and Cushing...
Harvey Cushing. 1869-1939. Cushing, a pioneer in neurosurgery, was born in Cleveland. He attended the Cleveland Manual Training School where he became interested in science and medicine. Cushing graduated with a B.A. from Yale University in 1891, and earned his M.D. from Harvard University in 1895.
Cushing heard that building would begin just before he died of a heart attack on October 7, 1939. Cushing’s Yale class of 1891, celebrating their 50th reunion, paid for the decoration of the Library rotunda. His Yale classmate and longtime friend, Grover Atterbury was the architect of the Library.
Harvey Cushing, Medical Illustrator, 1900. In the Hopkins years, Cushing drew a number of his medical illustrations that were published in medical journals. No doubt he perfected his skill under the informal tutelage of his friend, Max Brödel, the celebrated professional medical illustrator at Johns Hopkins.
