1912

Cushing publishes The Pituitary Body and Its Disorders . . . a milestone in medicine and history of endocrinology that “opened the book of surgery to a new place” (Thomson, 172-73; Fulton, 320-25). Cushing leaves Hopkins for Harvard, where Peter Brent Brigham Hospital opened in Jan 1913 (Thomson, 177ff.). Moynihan knighted by King George V (Bateman, 165). Tuffier performs first successful finger dilatation of aortic valve (Richardson, 96-97). Edsall accepts Harvard appointment, replacing Frederick Shattuck as Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine and chief of service at MGH (Aub & Hapgood, 124ff.). Abraham Flexner leaves Carnegie Foundation on appt. as assistant secretary of the Rockefeller Foundation General Education Board (Bonner 2, 113).