# Harvey Cushing

> He opened skulls when doing so was usually fatal, turned brain surgery from butchery into precision, and attached his name to a disease of the pituitary gland still diagnosed today.

*American neurosurgeon (1869-1939)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/harvey-cushing

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1869-04-08
- **Died:** 1939-10-07
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Harvey Williams Cushing was born April 8, 1869, and became the first surgeon to work exclusively on the brain and spine — a specialty that didn't exist before him. He developed techniques that dropped operative mortality rates and made neurosurgery a credible field rather than a last resort. Along the way he identified the pituitary disorder now called Cushing's disease. He was also a pathologist, a writer, and a draftsman who sketched what he saw in the operating theater. He spent years writing a three-volume biography of physician William Osler. Cushing died October 7, 1939, having built the foundation every brain surgeon since has stood on.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 54.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.5 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 21.9 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Doctors, #Doctor, #Medicine, #Literature, #United States, #Americas, #19th Century

## Sources
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