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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 · 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.
Oct 3, 2024 · 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.
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.
Cushing, founder of the specialty of neurosurgery, trained the next generation of neurosurgeons in his techniques. American and foreign physicians flocked to the Brigham to observe and to work with him. Though he was notoriously demanding of his residents and other assistants, they almost all felt a tremendous loyalty to him.
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.
1. The “All Star” operation. Photograph of William Stewart Halsted (operating with a mallet), Harvey Williams Cushing across from him, John M.T. Finney and Hugh Hampton Young participating in the first operation performed in the new operating room of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
