Harvey Cushing

Harvey Cushing

Harvey Cushing, A Biography

The physician of today may be somewhat bewildered in the face of the vast current literature on penicillin and the conflicting views on methods of administration, dosages, and indications. Dr. Fleming and his 28 associates have now provided a most authoritative and yet practical guide-book concerning the place of this agent in medicine. No one will deny that much remains to be learned of penici...

Harvey Cushing, Surgeon, Author, Artist

ELEMENTS OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. By Miriam Scott Lucas. Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 2d edition, 1950. 357 pp. $4.75. The second edition of this college text of human physiology shows very little change from the first edition. Despite the statement in the preface that the section on the nervous system is completely rewritten, there seems to have been no rewriting at all of this section, but merely...

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 Passing of Harvey Cushing *

A great loss has been suffered by our profession, and it is fitting that this Society should pause in its clinical proceedings to pay tribute to Harvey Cushing. In his character and his career was the stuff of which inspiring tradition is made. At the opening of the Montreal Neurological Institute five years ago he was guest speaker and a biographical sketcht appeared in our Foundation Volume. ...