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The Great American Neurosurgeon Richard J Barohn MD Gertrude and Dewey Ziegler Professor of Neurology The University of Kansas Medical Center Harvey Cushing MD 18691939 Born in Cleveland ID: 709588

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History of Neurology

Harvey Cushing MDThe Great American Neurosurgeon

Richard J. Barohn, MDGertrude and Dewey Ziegler Professor of NeurologyThe University of Kansas Medical CenterSlide2

Harvey Cushing MD

1869-1939

Born in Cleveland Undergrad –Yale (1891); Medical

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Harvard (1895)Intern- MGH; Surgeon Resident- John Hopkins under HalstedMet Osler there (“latch key” access to Osler's hand)Travel:studied in Bern/Liverpool with SherringtonPractice in BaltimoreThen: Associate Professor Surgeon John Hopkins & head CNS surgery Developed operating on CNS pts under anesthesia 1911- Surgeon-in-chief Peter Bent Brigham Hospital 1912-Proffesor of Surgery HMSWWI-served in Europe; rank of Colonel; numerous medalsTreated Osler’s fatally wounded sonReturned to HMS 1919Yale 1937-death 1939Wrote bio Osler- Pulitzer Prize (1925)His bio written by Fulton Slide3

Harvey Cushing MD

(1869-1939)He considerably improved the survival of patients after difficult brain operations for intracranial tumors

He used X-rays to diagnose brain tumorsHe used electrical stimuli for study of the human sensory cortex

He played a pivotal role in development of the

Bovie

 electrocautery tool with William T. Bovie, a physicistHe was the world's leading teacher of neurosurgeons in the first decades of the 20th centuryCo-invented blood pressure measuring devise with Scipione Riva RocciCushing Disease- hyperadrenalismCushing Reflex- slow heart rate & high ICPCushing Triad with high ICP-irregular respirations , bradycardia, systolic hypertension Meningiomas (1938) The Pituitary Body and its Disorders (1912)In 1988, the United States Postal Service issued a 45 cent postage stamp in his honor, as part of the Great Americans seriesSlide4

Harvey Cushing’s Publications

Surgery of the Head1910

The Pituitary Body and its Disorders 1912

Meningioma

1938Slide5

William Osler, the Man

by Harvey Cushing

1920Slide6

The Life of Sir William Osler

, 2 vols. (1926)by Harvey Cushing(Pulitzer Prize Winner)Slide7

The Life of Sir William Osler

, 2 vols. (1926)by Harvey Cushing(Pulitzer Prize Winner)