Cushing, Harvey Williams 1869-1939

NEUROSURGEON

Early Life.

A native of Cleve-land, Ohio, Harvey Williams Cushing was born 9 April 1869, the sixth son and youngest in a family of ten children. His father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and an older brother were all physicians. Harvey Cushing received his B.A. degree from Yale in 1891 and his M.D. from Harvard in 1895. He was drawn to surgery by his talent for dissecting and handling delicate tissue. He interned in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and took residency training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was surgical assistant to William Stewart Halsted, one of the foremost figures in the history of American surgery. Halsted taught Cushing his slow, meticulous technique.

Early Career.

Cushing spent one year in Europe (1900-1901) meeting and studying with some of the best surgeons in the world. He began general surgical practice in Baltimore in the summer of 1901...

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