CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)

1900

#4875

A method of total extirpation of the Gasserian ganglion for trigeminal neuralgia, by a route through the temporal fossa and beneath the middle meningeal artery.

1902

#5689

On the avoidance of shock in major amputations by cocainization of large nerve-trunks preliminary to their division.

William S. Halsted was first to use infiltration anesthesia (see No. 5679) and it was later developed by Cushing.

1902

#11573

Some experimental and clinical observations concerning states of increased intracranial tension.

According to Theodore Janeway (No. 11572), Cushing was the first to recommend routine measurement of blood pressure during surgery using the Riva Rocci sphygmomanometer.(See No. 2804). Cushing visited Riva Rocci at Pa…

1904

#4877.1

Pneumatic tourniquets: With especial reference to their use in craniotomies.

First report of tourniquet with pneumatic pressure of measurable degree. This inflatable cuff was the forerunner of the modern pneumatic tournequet cuff.

1905

#4878

Concerning surgical intervention for the intracranial hemorrhages of the new-born.

Successful operative intervention in intracranial hemorrhage of the new-born.

1905

#4879

The establishment of cerebral hernia as a decompressive measure for inaccessible brain tumors.

1906

#3890

Sexual infantilism with optic atrophy in cases of tumor affecting the hypophysis cerebri.

1908

#4880.1

Surgery of the head. In: Surgery: its principles and practice, edited by William Williams Keen, 3, 17-276.

Cushing’s first treatise on neurosurgery. “As a result of this detailed monograph, neurological surgery became almost at once recognized as a clear-cut field of surgical endeavor” (J.F. Fulton, Harvey Cushing [1947] 2…

1908

#10591

Experimental and clinical notes on chronic valvular lesions in the dog and their possible relation to a future surgery of cardiac valves.

Cushing and Branch's work was a key step in the early development of surgery of the mitral valves, later realized by Cushing's students Elliot Carr Cutler and Claude Beck in 1924. "Experiments on canine heart valves w…

1909

#10720

Observations on choked disc, with especial reference to decompressive cranial operations.

The diagnostic value for neurosurgery of changes in the optic nerve caused by increased intracranial pressure.

1910

#1160

Experimental hypophysectomy.

First experimental evidence of the relationship between the pituitary and the reproductive system; demonstration that hypophysectomy causes genital atrophy.

1910

#1161

The functions of the pituitary body.

See No. 3896.

1911

#10719

The control of bleeding in operations for brain tumors. With the description of silver "clips" for the occlusion of vessels inaccessible to the ligature.

Cushing introduced the use of silver clips in neurosurgery to control bleeding.

1912

#3896

The pituitary body and its disorders.

The first clinical monograph on the hypophysis. Cushing, outstanding neurological surgeon of the early 20th century, added much to our knowledge of the pituitary body and its disorders. The above work includes a descr…

1917

#4601

Tumors of the nervus acusticus and the syndrome of the cerebello-pontile angle.

Reprinted 1963.

1919

#11011

The story of U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 5

An account of the Base Hospital in which Cushing served in World War I, based upon his wartime diaries. Limited to 250 copies, some of which were issued in cloth-backed printed boards, and others in printed wrappers. …

1925

#11006

The life of Sir William Osler. 2 vols.

Cushing received the Pulitzer Prize for this masterful biography, which remains the essential account of Osler's life, work, and selections from his correspondence. Cushing donated his very extensive research material…

1926

#4608

A classification of the tumors of the glioma group on a histogenetic basis with a correlated study of prognosis.

From 1922 to 1925 Bailey undertook extensive pathological and histological studies of brain tumors, and based on cellular configuration, he created a classification system of thirteen categories. In 1927 he reduced th…

1926

#14313

Studies in intracranial physiology & surgery. The third circulation. The hypophysis. The gliomas. The Cameron Prize Lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh October 19, 20, 22, 1925.

This series of three lectures was an analytical review by Cushing of the three main categories of scientific work that he had accomplished during the previous 25 years. Remarkably, Cushing completed this review and de…

1928

#4897.1

Electro-surgery as an aid to the removal of intracranial tumors. With a preliminary note on a new surgical-current generator by W.T. Bovie.

Introduction of electrocoagulation in neurosurgery.

1928

#13778

Tumors arising from the blood-vessels of the brain. Angiomatous malformations and hemangioblastomas.

1931

#11188

Experiences with the cerebellar astrocytomas. A critical review of seventy-six cases.

Cushing's most extensive contribution to pediatric neurosurgery concerned his operative experience with these tumors (often benign) that most frequently occur in childhood.

1932

#3552

Papers relating to the pituitary body, hypothalamus, and para-sympathetic nervous system.

Cushing advanced the theory that the hypothalamus is responsible for the development of peptic ulcer (see p. 175 et seq.). This work contains his four principal contributions to pituitary-hypothalamic interrelationshi…

1932

#3904

The basophil adenomas of the pituitary body and their clinical manifestations (pituitary basophilism).

“Cushing’s syndrome”.

1932

#4900

Intracranial tumours.

Cushing’s operating technique reduced the mortality rate dramatically in intracranial surgery. This was his last published report on the statistical results of his operations on brain tumors-- essentially a summation …

1938

#4612

Meningiomas: Their classification, regional behavior, life history, and surgical end results.

Begun in 1915, soon after Cushing's monograph on pituitary disorders, this represents 25 years of work, and is, by common consent, regarded as Cushing’s greatest clinical monograph. Reprint, 2 vols., New York, Hafner,…

1939

#11189

A bibliography of the writings of Harvey Cushing prepared on the occasion of his seventieth birthday April 8, 1939 by The Harvey Cushing Society.

Revised and best third edition, Park Ridge, IL: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1993. This includes a photographic essay, with extensive captions, by Richard Upjohn Light.

1943

#6779

The Harvey Cushing collection of books and manuscripts.

Catalogue, without annotations, of the books and manuscripts bequeathed by Cushing to the Historical Library in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University School of Medicine. Much like Osler, Cushing colle…

1943

#8096

A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.

The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…

1946

#11018

Harvey Cushing: A biography.

Remains the most comprehensive biography of Cushing, by his student Fulton.

1986

#11635

The life and letters of Dr. Henry Vining Ogden, 1857-1931 by Leonard Weistrop.

Ogden was one of William Osler's closest life-long friends and correspondents. Weistrop was able to find and reproduce 334 letters between Ogden, Osler, and Cushing.

2007

#9425

The legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of patient care. Edited by Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer.

"... features 800 of Cushing's surgical drawings and photographs of patients and tumor specimens. Preserved untouched for sixty years in the Yale University Library, the images provide the earliest catalog of neurolog…

2007

#11030

Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery.

A less idolatrous biography of Cushing than Fulton's work of 1946.