In 1926, while he still was Harvard's brilliant medical light, Dr. Harvey Williams Gushing was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of his great good friend, the late Sir William Osier. The award saluted a rarity, an able doctor who was also an able literary craftsman. The salute also confirmed Dr. Cushing's reputation as a thoroughgoing medical historian.
In line with that specialty Dr. Gushing accumulated memorabilia about the greatest doctors of our time. The items pertaining to his own activities during the War fill nine volumes. They contain day-by-day orders of...
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