1910

Cushing’s first successful removal of a meningeal tumor and first complete removal of a tumor (of Major General Leonard Wood, a celebrity) (Thomson, 167, 215). Moynihan’s publication of Duodenal Ulcer (Bateman, 136-37). Elsberg achieves pressure differential between outside of lungs and mouth by blowing air and ether vapor via tube in patient’s windpipe at pressure to keep lungs distended, enabling Sauerbruch’s negative pressure chamber to be discarded (Woolmer, 100-101). Death of Koch on May 27 (Bäumler, 163).