Dr. Harvey Cushing's Oration on the Hypophysis Cerebri

Biography of Dr. Harvey Cushing

A need for more hospital accommodations has followed advances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, acting in association with an increase in the social conscience and in the individual regard for health. Operating perhaps more slowly is a different factor,-the elimination and reduction of disease by prevention will entirely alter the character of hospital practice, and, the .author believ...

The Physiological Effects of Extracts of the Hypophysis Cerebri and Infundibular Body

Injections of extracts of the hypophysis cerebri have been tested by Szymonowicz and by Oliver and Sch~ifer during the course of their well-known experiments upon the effects of extracts of the adrenal glands. Szymonowicz * states that in two experiments of this kind, made upon dogs, he obtained a slight fall of blood pressure and a quickening of the heart beat, just the reverse of the cardiac ...

Catecholamine neurotransmitters, psychoactive drugs, and biological clocks. The 1981 Harvey Cushing oration.

In his Cushing oration, the 1970 Nobel Laureate reviews the experimental history of the vital role which chemical agents play in the transmission of nerve impulses and the important functions of the brain. He reveals the intriguing steps in his own early involvement in the field of neurotransmitters. A beacon for neuroscientists of the future is his unique talent for not only looking, but seein...

A private consultation by Dr. William Harvey in 1642.

THIS NOTE is intended to draw attention to a previously unknown reference to William Harvey's private medical practice. The notice of a medical consultation by Harvey is recorded in a letter sent from London by Joseph Binnes to his cousin Joseph Colston in Italy.l Both of these individuals were medical practitioners associated with St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where Harvey was physician from 160...

Our fashionable killer; the Oration on Trauma.