Harvey Williams Cushing was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman.
30 Facts About Harvey Cushing
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Harvey Cushing wrote a biography of physician William Osler in three volumes.
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Harvey Cushing studied medicine at Harvard Medical School and earned his medical degree in 1895.
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Harvey Cushing completed his internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and then did a residency in surgery under the guidance of pioneering surgeon William Stewart Halsted at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
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Harvey Cushing subsequently trained in neurosurgical abroad under Emil Theodor Kocher at Bern and Charles Scott Sherrington at Liverpool.
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Dr Harvey Cushing began his career in private practice in Baltimore.
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Harvey Cushing wrote numerous monographs on surgery of the brain and spinal column and made important contributions in bacteriology.
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Harvey Cushing conducted a study of intracerebral pressure and contributed much to the localization of the cerebral centers.
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Harvey Cushing became a professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School starting in 1912.
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Harvey Cushing was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1914.
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Shortly after the entry of the United States into the First World War, Harvey Cushing was commissioned as a major in the US Army Medical Corps on May 5,1917.
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Harvey Cushing was director of the US base hospital attached to the British Expeditionary Force in France.
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Harvey Cushing served as the head of a surgical unit in a French military hospital outside of Paris.
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Harvey Cushing was mentioned in a dispatch by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in November 1917.
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Harvey Cushing attained the rank of colonel on October 23,1918.
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Harvey Cushing returned to the United States in February 1919 and was discharged on April 9 of the same year.
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In recognition of his service during the war, Harvey Cushing was invested as a Companion of the Bath by the British government.
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Harvey Cushing authored the Pulitzer prize-winning biography, Life of Sir William Osler.
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Harvey Cushing died on October 7,1939, in New Haven, Connecticut, from complications of a myocardial infarction.
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Harvey Cushing was interred at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.
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An autopsy performed on Harvey Cushing revealed that his brain harbored a colloid cyst of the third ventricle.
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Harvey Cushing returned to the US with a sample of Riva-Rocci's sphygmomanometer and blood pressure measurement became a vital sign.
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Harvey Cushing's name is commonly associated with his most famous discovery, Harvey Cushing's disease.
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Harvey Cushing was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for a book recounting the life of one of the fathers of modern medicine, Sir William Osler.
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In 1930, Harvey Cushing was awarded the Lister Medal for his contributions to surgical science.
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Harvey Cushing was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1934, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
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Harvey Cushing served as president of the History of Science Society in 1934.
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Harvey Cushing was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, nominated at least 38 times.
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Harvey Cushing developed a surgical magnet while working with the Harvard Medical Unit in France during World War I to extract shrapnel from the heads of wounded soldiers.
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Harvey Cushing married Katharine Stone Crowell, a Cleveland childhood friend, on June 10,1902.