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Surgery of the head. In: Surgery: its principles and practice, edited by William Williams Keen, 3, 17-276.

Publication Details

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1908 CE.

Cushing’s first treatise on neurosurgery. “As a result of this detailed monograph, neurological surgery became almost at once recognized as a clear-cut field of surgical endeavor” (J.F. Fulton, Harvey Cushing [1947] 268).

Thematic Classifications

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Entry Number#4880.1
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/5765
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLsurgery-of-the-head-in-surgery-its-principles-and-practice-edited-by-william-williams-keen-3-17276

Geographic Context

Publication place: Philadelphia