Fulton's "Harvey Cushing" and Harvey Cushing at seventy / Henry Viets].

  • Henry Viets
Date:
[1939,1947]
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Credit: Fulton's "Harvey Cushing" and Harvey Cushing at seventy / Henry Viets]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Medicine in general has been unusually fortunate in the biographers of her worthies. The Life of Sir William Osier, by Harvey Cushing, a full two- volume estimate of Osier and his influence on Cana¬ dian, American and English medicine, published in 1925, set a standard never before reached in medical biography in this country and indeed seldom equaled in all the history of physic. One can only compare it with Stephen Paget’s discriminating study of Victor Horsley or with Humphry Rolles- ton’s thoughtful biography of Clifford Allbutt, to mention only two outstanding modern examples. As the Cushing volume is so richly autobiographical, there comes to mind also those more personal remin¬ iscences of contemporary physicians, such as Hans Zinsser’s appealing As I Remember Him: The bi¬ ography of R. S., Ramon y Cajal’s penetrating Recollections of My Life, Bland-Sutton’s sprightly The Story of a Surgeon, August Forel’s Out of My Life and Work and, in a lighter vein. The Horse and Buggy Doctor by Hertzler and Sands of Time by Purves-Stewart. To these of recent date should be added the fine tribute to Theodore Tronchin by Henry Tronchin and the memorable account of William Henry Welch by Simon Flexner and his gifted son James Thomas Flexner. To this brief list, fully recognized as incomplete, must now be added the biography of Harvey Cushing by John F. Fulton. Few biographies are
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