Harvey Cushing: A Journey Through His Life

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  "Doctor Cushing during the operation on the 2000th verified brain tumor"

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  Cushing and the Cattani Ecorchés, 1932

  Cushing was given the three lifesize écorchés (skinless figures showing the muscles) by Vittorio Putti, Italian physician and historian of medicine. They were brought first to villa of Arnold C. Klebs at Nyon, where this photograph was taken. The engravings were created by Antonio Cattani, ca. 1780, from the celebrated écorchés carved in linden wood by Ercole Lelli in 1734 for the Anatomical Theatre in the Archiginnasio in Bologna.
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  Slide from case in Cushing Tumor Registry 4/4

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  Slide from case in Cushing Tumor Registry 3/4

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  Slide from case in Cushing Tumor Registry 2/4

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  Slide from case in Cushing Tumor Registry 1/4

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  Cushing on Axenstrasse, Switzerland

  This well-known image of Cushing was taken by his friend, Arnold Klebs. Cushing gave signed copies of this photo to a number of his associates. This copy was given to Richard U. Light.
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  Harvey Cushing's Travel Diary, 1932

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  Intracranial Tumors, p. 46-47

  Harvey Cushing, Intracranial tumours: Notes upon a Series of Two Thousand Verified Cases with Surgical-Mortality Percentages Pertaining Thereto. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1932.
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  Cushing Medallion, 1932

  This medical was struck on the occasion of Cushing's retirement from Harvard and his twentieth anniversary as Moseley Professor of Surgery.
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  Harvey Cushing's Joseph Lister Medal (1932) and Henry Jacob Bigelow Medal (1933)

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  C. Sherrington, H. Cushing, W.H. Welch, T.G. Brown, and J.F. Fulton at Les Terraces, September 1931.

  This photograph shows Charles Sherrington, Harvey Cushing, William Henry Welch (former professor of pathology and dean of Johns Hopkins), Thomas Graham Brown (professor of physiology at the University of Wales in Cardiff and a mountaineer), and John F. Fulton at Les Terraces, September 1931.
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  Consecratio Medici and Other Papers, title page

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  Cake celebrating Cushing's 2000th brain tumor operation

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  "Doctor Cushing closing 2000th verified brain tumor, April 15, 1931"

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  "Dr. Cushing. The 2000th. Verified Brain Tumor Operation, 15 April, 1931."

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  Harvey Cushing, Dr. Ottfrid Förster, and Patient, 1930

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  "Dr. Cushing Explaining a Neurological dressing"

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  Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Surgical Staff, 1930

  Front row : Richard U. Light, Donald E. Dial, Richard F. Farnsworth, Thomas I. Hoen, Louise Eisenhardt, William deG. Mahoney, John E. Scarff, Middle row : Harlan F. Newton, Gilbert Horrax, John Homans, Gunnar Nystöm (Temporary Surgeon-in-Chief), Harvey Cushing, David Cheever, Francis C. Newton, John H. Powers. Top row : Kenneth W. Thompson, two unidentified students, John H. Lawrence, Arthur T. Hertig, Bronson S. Ray, William T. Green, Eric Oldberg, George Armitage, William R. Henderson, Richard H. Meagher, Edward B. Castle.
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  Harvey Cushing and Ivan Pavlov, 1929

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  Two Physiologists Cushing at 60; Pavlov at 80

  Taken when Pavlov visited Boston for the Thirteenth International Physiological Congress, held in Boston in August 1929.
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  Harvey Cushing at the bedside of a child

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  The Life of Sir William Osler, title page

  Photograph of title page of Harvey Cushing's 1925 biography of William Osler
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  Julia Shepley, Madeline Stanton, and Louise Eisenhardt

  The three assistants of Harvey Cushing at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital . Filed under Louise Eisenhardt.
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  From A Surgeon's Journal