Letter, 1930, Mar. 19 : London, to Harvey Cushing.

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Letter, 1930, Mar. 19 : London, to Harvey Cushing.

ALS. Writes regarding the prospective sale of the 1785 edition of Withering's Account of the foxglove.

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Gunn, James Andrew, 1882-

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English pharmacologist. From the description of Letter, 1930, Mar. 19 : London, to Harvey Cushing. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35089939 ...

Withering, William, 1741-1799

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William Withering, botanist and physician, is credited with the introduction of digitalis into the practice of medicine. Withering was born in Wellington, Shropshire, England in 1741. He followed in the medical footsteps of his father who was an apothecary-surgeon. Withering received his degree in 1766 from the University of Edinburgh. Withering published 19 articles during his lifetime. After fighting a long battle with tuberculosis, he died on 6 October 1799, at the age of 58. Dig...

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

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Harvey Williams Cushing was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 8, 1869. He graduated from Yale College in 1891 and in 1895 received his M.D. and A.M. degrees from the Harvard Medical School. He served on the staff of the Johns Hopkins University Hospital from 1901 to 1912, where he devoted himself to neurological surgery. In 1912 he was appointed professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and in 1913 surgeon-in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, posts which he held until 1932. During W...