1930-1931

Cushing begins working on relationship of hypothalamus to visceral function; finds that only brain operations encroaching on base of brain were followed by gastric complications. Cushing announces retirement as surgeon-in-chief of Brigham, where he performs his last operation there on Aug, 2, 1932; Fuller urges him to come to Yale, and he returns to Yale as Sterling Professor of Neurology in 1933.