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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 .
SS Harvey Cushing was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Harvey Cushing , 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
Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley, born Barbara Cushing in Boston, Massachusetts, was the daughter of renowned brain surgeon Harvey Cushing, who belonged to a prominent Cleveland medical family and held professorships at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Yale, and Katharine Stone (née Crowell), a granddaughter of Ohio congressman John Crowell.
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 ...
Died: Joe Masseria, 45, Sicilian-born American Mafia boss of New York's Morello Family Gang, was shot to death by two gunmen after being betrayed by his top lieutenant, Lucky Luciano; Dr. Harvey Cushing (1869–1939) performs his two thousandth verified brain tumor operation at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. The operation is filmed ...
His death followed that of actor Cory Monteith, who died of an overdose in July 2013 shortly after a 30-day stay at an abstinence-based treatment center. In Cincinnati, an entry point for heroin heading to Kentucky, the street dealers beckoning from corners call it “dog” or “pup” or “dog food.”
Mary Benedict Cushing was the eldest daughter of Harvey Williams Cushing (1869–1939) and his wife Katharine Stone Crowell. Her father, a pioneering neurosurgeon, was the first person to describe Cushing's disease, and, along with Ernest Sachs, is known as the "father of neurosurgery."