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Heirs of Hippocrates

The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books

Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2270

HARVEY WILLIAMS CUSHING (1869-1939). Tumors of the nervus acusticus and the syndrome of the cerebellopontile angle. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1917. viii, 296 pp., illus. (part col.), diagrs; 24 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 2269

This book consists primarily of detailed and well-illustrated case histories of patients with surgically challenging lesions of the brain stem. It reveals the carefully documented case histories Cushing kept and the self-discipline with which he worked.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4601

Gift of John Martin, M.D.

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