Yale placed on display Cushing's collection of brain specimens
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Harvey Williams Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. Known as the "father of modern neurosurgery," 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.
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science · American neurosurgeon (1869–1939) · physician · neuroscientist · neurosurgeon · university teacher · neurologist · writer · biographer · surgeon · medical historian · bibliophile · also Harvey Williams Cushing, Harvey Cushing, Dr. Harvey Cushing, Harvey W. Cushing, Cushing
Born 8 April 1869 · Died 7 October 1939 · Q380038
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2005· 1 entry
The library released portions of its collection online, including the Peter Parker Collection which consists of a collection of portrait engravings and 83 mid-19th-century oil paintings rendered by artist Lam Qua of Chin
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1988· 1 entry
The United States Postal Service issued a 45-cent postage stamp in his honor, as part of the Great Americans series
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1939· 2 entries
In New Haven, Connecticut, from complications of a myocardial infarction
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Died 1939-10-07.
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1934· 1 entry
And a Fellow of the Royal Society of London
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1933· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1933).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1933).
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1932· 1 entry
As "The Basophil Adenomas of the Pituitary Body and Their Clinical Manifestations: pituitary Basophilism"
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1930· 2 entries
Won Lister Medal (1930).
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Cushing was awarded the Lister Medal for his contributions to surgical science
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1929).
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1926· 1 entry
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1926).
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1924· 1 entry
Cushing was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
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1923· 1 entry
Was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the U
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1918· 1 entry
Was promoted to lieutenant colonel and was assigned as senior consultant in neurological surgery for the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe
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1917· 1 entry
Cushing was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences
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1915· 1 entry
Before the Clinical Congress of Surgeons in Boston, he showed the possibility of influencing stature by operating on the pituitary gland
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1913· 1 entry
Awarded honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (1913).
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1912· 1 entry
Reported in a study an endocrinological syndrome caused by a malfunction of the pituitary gland which he termed "polyglandular syndrome
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1911· 1 entry
Was appointed surgeon-in-chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston
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1905· 1 entry
(after he discovered the famed "Korotkoff sounds") with his improved sphygmomanometer, which also replaced the mercury manometer with a smaller, round dial manometer
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1903· 1 entry
William Harvey Cushing (1903–1926) (died in an automobile accident while a student at Yale University)
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1896· 1 entry
Riva-Rocci developed a wall-mounted mercury manometer linked to a balloon-inflated cuff that would measure the pressure needed to compress arterial systolic pressure, i
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1891· 1 entry
From Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key and Delta Kappa Epsilon (Phi chapter)
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1869· 1 entry
Born 1869-04-08.
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