Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2269

HARVEY WILLIAMS CUSHING (1869-1939) The pituitary body and its disorders. J. B. Lippincott 1912 x, 341 pp., col. front., illus., fold. plate. 24.1 cm.

Harvey Cushing, born in Cleveland, Ohio, and educated at Harvard and Yale, taught successively at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard, and Yale, becoming the world's leading neurological surgeon. His productivity was enormous--in surgery, in research, and in publication. In addition, he was a distinguished collector of medical books which he bequeathed to Yale. The physiology of the hypophysis, its diseases, and their treatment, were early and life-long interests of Cushing. His studies of this subject, as of most anything he touched, were exhaustive, and the textual matter, case histories, and illustrations in this pioneer work have scarcely been improved upon to this day. This book is an amplification of the Harvey Lecture of December, 1910. The front flyleaf of the University of Iowa Libraries' copy carries this inscription: "Inscribed for Dr. John Martin with the regards and best wishes of Harvey Cushing, New Haven, Dec. 1, 1938."

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3896; Waller 2252

Gift of John Martin, M.D.