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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brain & Heart. The hospital's first surgeon in chief was the late great Harvey Gushing, who immediately began to develop the improvements in technique which made brain surgery a lifesaving, everyday procedure. Working side by side with Gushing was a radiologist. Dr. Merrill Sosman, who pioneered X-ray treatment for pituitary tumors. In 1920 Surgeon Elliott Cutler made a daring attempt at surgery inside the heart, to correct a narrowed mitral valve; it was crude and premature (all but one patient died), but it helped pave the way for one of his pupils, Dwight Emary Harken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Boston Pioneers | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...NOBLE-SOSMAN Westfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 5, 1952 | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

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