When the Cushing family arrived in the Boston area in 1912, the hospital building still wasn't ready for occupation. On the occasion of a visit by William Osler to Boston, an unofficial opening took place in February, 1913, the event captured in this ...
Subject (Name):
Cannon, Walter B. (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945, Christian, Henry Asbury, 1876-1951, Councilman, W. T. (William Thomas), 1854-1933, Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939, Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and Warren, John Collins, 1842-1927
This photograph shows No. 1 (left) and No. 3 West Franklin St., Baltimore. William Osler and his wife Grace Revere Osler lived at No. 1. In 1901, Cushing and two other bachelor physicians moved into No. 3. They all were given "latchkeys" to Osler's ho...
Subject (Name):
Cushing family, Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939, and Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919
Cushing was given the three lifesize écorchés (skinless figures showing the muscles) by Vittorio Putti, Italian physician and historian of medicine. They were brought first to the villa of Arnold C. Klebs at Nyon, where this photograph was taken. The ...
The other woman was possibly Kate's friend, Mary Goodwillie, Founder of the Junior League of Baltimore. They both saw Cushing when they visited Boston in 1892. The Historical Library does not own the original daguerreotype.
Subject (Name):
Cushing family, Cushing, Kate, and Goodwillie, Mary
Cushing kept careful records from all his medical school courses. This page of notes are from an advanced physiology course taught by Henry P. Bowditch.
The children were: William Harvey (Bill), born 1903, Mary Benedict (Minnie), born 1906, Betsey, born 1908, and Henry Kirke, born 1910. The last Cushing child, Barbara (Babe), was born in 1915.
Subject (Name):
Cushing family, Cushing, Betsey, Cushing, Henry, Cushing, Kate, Cushing, Mary, and Cushing, William
Drawing of the motor area of the brain published in W. W. Keen's Surgery in 1908. The individual depicted has been thought to represent William Osler, but Michael Bliss suggests it might be Edward Cushing, Harvey's brother.
In September 1893, before beginning his third year at Harvard Medical School, Harvey and his physician brother Ned, visited the great Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
The Society of Clinical Surgery, that Cushing had helped to found in 1903, was a club for younger surgeons to meet at different medical centers and watch each other operate. In 1912, the Society arranged through Thomas Cook and Son, a tour of operatin...
This well-known image of Cushing was taken by his friend, Arnold Klebs. Cushing gave signed copies of this photo to a number of his associates. This copy was given to Richard U. Light.