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Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease .
Bovie used such knowledge to create his electrosurgical device and he first employed it in neurosurgical cases with Harvey Cushing, known as the father of neurosurgery. [3] Bleeding had been the significant obstacle in neurosurgery until Bovie and Cushing began to employ the device in 1926. [4] An electrosurgical unit in use during a modern surgery
1900. About this time Harvey Cushing began pioneering brain surgery. 1901. German surgeon Georg Kelling performed the first Laparoscopic surgery on dogs. 1901. Austrian physician Karl Landsteiner discovered the basic A-B-AB-O blood types. 1903. Dutch physician Willem Einthoven invented the Electrocardiograph. 1905. Novocaine was first used as a ...
The sphygmomanometer was invented by Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch in the year 1881. [1] Scipione Riva-Rocci introduced a more easily-usable version in 1896. In 1901, pioneering neurosurgeon Dr. Harvey Cushing brought an example of Riva-Rocci's device to the US, modernized and popularized it within the medical community.
American surgeon Harvey Cushing (1869–1939) successfully removed a pituitary adenoma from an acromegalic in 1909. Treating endocrine hyperfunction by neurosurgery was a major neurological landmark. Egas Moniz (1874–1955) in Portugal developed a procedure of leucotomy (now mostly known as lobotomy) to treat severe psychiatric disorders.
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
The disease associated with this increased secretion of cortisol was described by the American neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing in 1912 after he was presented with a unique case of the disease in 1910 [28] [29] a 23-year-old woman called Minnie G. whose symptoms included painful obesity, amenorrhea, hypertrichosis (abnormal hair growth ...
The American surgeon Harvey Cushing spent several months in the lab of Kocher in 1900, performing cerebral surgery and first encountering the Cushing reflex which describes the relationship between blood pressure and intracranial pressure. Kocher later also found that decompressive craniectomy was an effective method to lower ICP. [7]