Harvey Williams Cushing was an American #neurosurgeon who was a pioneer of neurosurgery, and stud…
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Harvey Williams Cushing was an American #neurosurgeon who was a pioneer of neurosurgery, and studied #bloodpressure.
His clinical contributions are legendary: the use of #x-rays in #surgical practice, physiological #saline for irrigation during surgery, the discovery of the #pituitary as the master #hormone #gland, founding the clinical specialty of #endocrinology, the #anesthesia record, the use of blood pressure measurement in surgical practice, and the physiological consequences of increased #intracranial pressure.
He performed the first brain surgery in the U.S. on 21 Feb 1902.
