Harvey Cushing, A Biography
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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 penicillin and of its action, or that many of the present usages must be regarded as provisional. Although details of practice are likely to change, the fundamental principles which this volume stresses throughout seem well established. The contributors emphasize throughout such considerations as the importance of isolating the etiological agent and determining the susceptibility to penicillin of the particular strain involved. The opening chapters are general in scope, and present the chemistry, pharmacology, development and production of penicillin, the bacteriological control of therapy, and methods of administration. The major part of the book is concerned with clinical application, and the .material is so arranged that the physician is likely to find the facts bearing on his special problem conveniently in one chapter. To be sure, there are some points of disagreement between British and American practice, such as the place of penicillin in the treatment of surgical wounds, and the more conservative dosages advocated in the book were often dictated by shortages rather than by a lack of appreciation of the desirability of more intensive therapy. In essence, however, there is close agreement on fundamental issues, and this contribution will doubtlessly meet with the wide acceptance it fully deserves. M. TAGER
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Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery.
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متن کاملJoseph Marshall Flint and the whole-time system at Yale. The Samuel Clark Harvey Lecture in the History of Medicine March 21, 1977. Medical Historical Library. Yale University School of Medicine.
In a talk presented in 1922 to the Society of Clinical Surgery, Dr. Harvey Cushing, the eminent neurological surgeon, said that, "Someone has divided mankind into those who deserve a biography and those who do not, the former being subdivided into oneand two-volume people; those entitled to three can scarcely enter into any calculation. Yet individuals or their agglomerations, when too near at ...
متن کاملW. T. G. Morton's Memoir on Sulphuric Ether, 1847
could delineate Cushing's character and characteristics quite as well as has Cushing himself. The reader may well wish that more of such material had been included. The book is singularly free of observable technical errors, the most significant one is the statement on page 88 where we find that Cushing sailed from Boston on the 30th of June to arrive (says Cushing) "in Liverpool harbor on June...
متن کاملHarvey Cushing: early use of tendon transfers for repair of foot deformity
We describe 4 cases of tendon transfers for correction of foot deformities, which were performed by Harvey Cushing in 1898.
متن کاملThe Brigham Diary of Loyal Davis: a portrait of Harvey Cushing and a neurosurgical acolyte.
At 27 years of age, Loyal Davis wrote the Brigham Diary while training as an Associate in Surgery with Dr. Harvey Cushing. The diary is a daily record of the Cushing neurosurgical service between 1923 and 1924. The literary tone of the document is one of youthful enthusiasm and candor. Its contemporary portrayal of Harvard University's third Moseley Professor displays a demanding surgeon and sc...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 19 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1946