CUSHING, HARVEY. 1869-1939.


Selected Reprints of the Surgical Staff of the Brigham Hospital. [Cambridge, MA]: 1924. Volume containing 48 reprints of articles and monographs published by the surgical staff at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now part of Brigham and Women's Hospital), compiled by the Dr. Harvey Cushing. 4to. Half morocco and marbled boards, with gilt stamped titles on spine. Rubbed, contents showing light wear and minor browning.PART OF CUSHING'S OWN COMPILATION OF HIS STAFF'S PUBLICATIONS, including The Surgical Treatment of Mitral Stenosis by Elliott Cutler, Samuel Levine and Claude Beck, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Cutler to Cushing: "To Dr. Cushing, with his affectionate regards and everlasting gratitude of all the authors." Also tipped into this monograph is a typed letter signed from Cutler to Cushing regarding the publication of this piece. Cushing and Cutler both served as Surgeon-in-Chief of the hospital — this compilation also includes Cushing's report as Surgeon-in-Chief in 1924. Cutler, Levine and Beck's monograph is of particular importance, as it details Cutler's pioneering operation for mitral stenosis. Surgeon Howard Lilienthal described it in his 1925 monograph on thoracic surgery: "Cutler, as well as Cushing, under whose auspices this epoch-making work was done, prefer the transventricular direct valvotomy" (H. Lilienthal, Thoracic Surgery, Philadelphia, 1925). WITH: ZOLLINGER, ROBERT. Elliot Carr Cutler and the Cloning of Surgeons. Mount Kisco, NY: Futura Publishing, 1998. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.WITH: FULTON, JOHN. Harvey Cushing: A Biography. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1946. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.WITH: BLISS, MICHAEL. Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.