Samuel Clark Harvey, 1886-1953

Two doctors Harvey: William (1578-1657); Samuel Clark (1886-1953).

Preparations for this contribution to the 1979 History of Surgery Lecture at the Yale University School of Medicine were begun in the autumn of 1978, the year which marked the four hundredth anniversary of William Harvey's birth. It was the present writer's original intention to honor the memory of that great medical scientist with a brief biographical note and critique. However, as the researc...

Herbert King Thoms

George Hathorn Smith 1885-1952 *

Joseph Marshall Flint

Joseph 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 ...