SUMMARY: This is a typed letter signed by Harvey Cushing with great content. Price:Sold

Harvey Williams Cushing (1869- 1939). Cushing was an American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest neurosurgeons of the 20th century.He was educated at Yale, Harvard Medical School and had his internship in surgery at the Mass General. He later studied with the great surgeon at Hopkins William Halstead.

He held faculty positions at Johns Hopkins and at Harvard and Yale Schools of Medicine.Among his professional achievements were:1-He considerably improved the survival of patients after difficult brain operations for intracranial tumors;2- he used x-rays to diagnose brain tumors; and 3-he used electrical stimuli for study and mapping of the human sensory cortex. In addition to his technical excellence he was a masterful mentor and teacher and writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of another great Sir William Osler, M.D.

This offering is a Typed letter signed Harvey Cushing in black fountain pen ink on the engraved New Haven Hospital, Private Pavilion, New Haven, Connecticut letterhead, February 8, 1934. 5.5 in x 8 in.1 page (recto only).Extra Fine.The letter is written to a future Nobel Laureate George Minot and it mentions another Nobel winner William Murphy in the body of the letter. Reads in part:

"--A pleasant glimpse of Bill Murphy this morning, down here on consultation with a small boy who occupies a room just opposite mine, has reminded me of your Christmas card and its friendly message --I am glad to say that I seem to be on the mend and shall hope to be out and kicking again before long--"

Cushing was a chain smoker and had various ailments that caused him to retire at age 60 from Harvard and he returned to Yale where he spent his waning years not doing surgery but working on various projects such as the Yale Medical School Library.

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