D R. Harvey Cushing was one of the founding fathers of modern neurosurgery in the English speaking world along with William MacEwen and Victor Horsley. Of this triumvirate, Cushing had not only the most impact in neurosurgery, but he also exerted lasting influence upon all the clinical neurological sciences. I shall restrict my remarks to certain aspects of his creative personality, and more specifically to his great influence upon the field of neuropathology. I shall also briefly mention the clinical history and results of his 2000th operation, and finally I will relate a few enlightening anecdotes told me by his associates and colleagues after he joined Yale University in 1933 as Sterling Professor of Neurology.
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