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Pp. 60-86, with 16 figs. Original wrappers. Edges of wrappers chipped. Very Good. First Edition. Cushing Bibliography no. 113: "Presented before the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, Washington, June 1910." "This paper offered evidence that posterior lobe secretion of the pituitary could be detected in the cerebrospinal fluid. H.C. believed that this was its normal mode of egress from the gland" (Fulton, Harvey Cushing, fn. 27 on p.313). SIGNED BY HARVEY CUSHING TO MAX BRÖDEL: "Max Brödel/ with the greetings/of/ Harvey Cushing" (see photos). "The development of medical illustrating at Johns Hopkins was due to the backing which Kelly, Mall, and Cushing gave to the most celebrated of medical illustrators, Max Brödel, whom Kelly had brought to the Hopkins in 1894. Brödel and Cushing, arriving at much the same time and having an instinctive insight into one another's personalities and interests, fell almost literally into one another's arms. A close and deeply cherished intimacy developed between them, and Brödel looked upon Cushing as his most gifted pupil--a 'pupil' in the sense of one who as a surgeon received only casual guidance rather than the more formal courses in medical illustrating for which Brödel later became celebrated. The illustrations in his paper on trigeminal neuralgia, being done in half-tone, reflect Brödel's influence; but Brödel stated emphatically on more than one occasion that Cushing executed them himself with only occasional suggestion. The plate of the base of the skull showing the Gasserian ganglion is one of the best. . . . H.C.'s flair for catching a likeness was most evident when, on 27 January 1900, he did a skillful crayon sketch of Max Brödel, sitting in an easy chair. The correspondence between the two men extended over the next four decades and their letters cast many interesting sidelights on the history of medical illustrating in this country" (Fulton, Harvey Cushing, p. 158). "Early in March [1938]he attended a dinner for another old friend of Hopkins days, Max Brödel. Though their intimate association at the turn of the century had been interrupted when H.C, had gone to Boston and the two men had seen little of one another in the intervening years, they had continued warm friends and H.C. never missed an opportunity to see him and was always interested in the pupils Brödel had trained. He described the dinner at some length: H.C. to A.C.K. [Arnold C. Klebs] 12 March 1938. 'Dear Arnold: I went down a week ago on a jaunt to Philadelphia to attend a dinner being given for Max Brödel by the present head of the W. B. Saunders Company, young Lawrence Saunders. It was a delightful affair with a great turn-out of some two hundred people to pay a tribute to the man whose name, I suppose, will outlive most of his Hopkins contemporaries owing to the uniqueness of his contribution to medicine. This is of course debatable and something which time alone will determine; but it was unquestionably a tribute well deserved. . . . Tom Cullen presided and told the whole story of his securing from Henry Walters the fund to ensure Brödel's continuance at the Hopkins when the Mayos were making advances to him to go to Rochester at his own price, suggesting $25,000, I believe, as a bid. Max decided to stay at Baltimore for a more or less uncertain $5,000, and he has been very happy there and from his appearance will go on turning out pupils for a decade or two to come. Lawrence Saunders had had a portrait made by Comer, the best in my opinion of the many he has made of Hopkins worthies in years gone by. Howard Kelly, showing his years for the first time, was one of the speakers; also Morris Fishbein, and H. L. Mencken on Brödel as a pianist, very amusing. And then the portrait was presented and Max very modestly and somewhat humorously replied in his own behalf. . .' (Fulton, Harvey Cushing, pp. 693-694).".
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