1908

Cushing publishes first systematic treatise (monograph) on brain surgery, which was to have been a chapter in W.W. Keen’s textbook (Thomson, 158), but grew from assigned chapter of 80pp. to monograph of 276pp. and 154 illustrations (Fulton, 267-269). Trendelenburg attempts first (unsuccessful) pulmonary embolectomy (“Trendelenburg’s operation”) (Richardson, 65-66). James Mackenzie publishes Diseases of the Heart and meets Thomas Lewis in London (Wilson, 197-199; Lawrence, 18).