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Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs, August 27, 1923
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Harvey Cushing was born on April 8, 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the youngest child of Henry Kirke Cushing, physician, and Betsey Maria Williams. In 1902, he married Katharine Stone Crowell with whom he had five children : William Harvey, Mary Benedict, Betsey, Henry Kirke and Barbara. His primary and secondary education was in Cleveland. He received his A.B. at Yale University in 1891, and his M.A., M.D., at Harvard University in 1895. He died on October 7, 1939 in New Haven, Connecticut. Harvey Cushing began his career at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1895-96. He moved to Baltimore to work at the Johns Hopkins Hospital where he stayed for 15 years, mostly at the Faculty of Surgery. In 1912, he returned to Harvard as Professor of Surgery and also worked at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (1913-1932). In 1933, he became Professor of Neurology at Yale, a position he held until 1937. Considered a pioneer of Neurosurgery, he made several fundamental discoveries about the pituitary gland. Bibliophile and an earnest collector of books, he published many essays and other literary works, among them the 1926 Pulitzer prize-winning biography of William Osler.
Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from Harvey Cushing, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Cushing is asking for precisions about their meeting at Cannes in 1912. Osler had written him "I have asked Vetter to send the Lenotte sketches." He is wondering about the meaning of that sentence. On the same letter is the handwritten reply of Jacobs. Reminiscences. Osler had brought photos that Revere had taken in Venice which shows his artistic feeling. He was proud of them and predicted that Revere would become an architect or an artist. Details about Osler's activities. He does not recall the Lenotte sketches.
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Cushing's colour code: White (Correspondence)