Word: hospitalers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in February Catalonia was collapsing like a punctured balloon. One day Colonel Enrique Lister, one of the commanders who led the Loyalists in their last-ditch stand, ordered him to evacuate his Gerona hospital of its sick and wounded. Dr. Vidal protested that many of the patients were too...
Baseball to Tumors. Dr. Cushing's extraordinary career is a record of one of the most single-minded men in the history of medicine. At Yale young Harvey Cushing played right field on the baseball team, and became a first-rate gymnast. Following family tradition (three generations), he decided...
Harvard Years. In 1912 Dr. Cushing became Professor of Surgery at Harvard, and head of the famous Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. His labors were phenomenal. He would rise shortly after seven, eat a light breakfast, work on his medical articles, then go to the hospital. One operation sometimes took him...
After operating, Dr. Cushing would retire to the dressing room, dictate all his surgical notes, make his own sketches for hospital records. In his 20 years at Harvard, Dr. Cushing collected some 2,000 brain tumors, which he stored in bottles. Many of these are pituitary tumors, for Dr. Cushing...
Active Retirement: In 1933 Dr. Cushing returned to Yale, and in 1937 he retired. But retirement, to Harvey Cushing, did not mean rest. He hates vacations, spends his day at the New Haven Hospital. In the evenings he plays backgammon with kindly, sociable Mrs. Cushing. His greatest relaxation is playing...