1926

Cushing’s first use of electric cautery apparatus in a brain operation: success (Thomson, 247-48); Cushing and Bailey publish volume on tumors of glioma group (tumors of the glial cells found in brain and spinal cord (Thomson, 240-41). Welch becomes first occupant of new chair in History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins (Barker, 227). New York practitioner cardiologists, excluded from leadership in public-health oriented American Heart Association, form their own Mackenzie Society, renamed two years later the New York Cardiological Society (Fye 2, 72-73).