The Cushing lineage and the Western Reserve
Parents and early days in Cleveland
Bright college years : Yale 1887-1891
Harvard Medical School 1891-1896
Halsted and the Johns Hopkins 1896-1900
A year of travel : broadening horizons 1900-1901
Physician and general surgeon 1901-1907
Neurological surgery : the birth of a specialty
The pituitary body : years of rapid development
Academic calls. Planning a university hospital
Settling in Boston 1912-1914
The Harvard unit in Paris and after 1915-1917
Base hospital number 5, 1915-1918
Postwar problems : the Institute of Neurology
Literary pursuits : Olser biography 1920-1924
Growth of a clinic : the life history of brain tumors and electrosurgery 1925-1928
Final years at Harvard 1929-1933
Return to Yale 1933-1937
The closing years 1937-1939
Appendix A: Harvey Cushing's will
Appendix B: Degrees and honors

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