1938

Publication of Cushing’s final book, his meningioma volume, coauthored with Eisenhardt, his greatest clinical monograph. With this volume he completed studies of the more important types of brain tumor: those impinging on the pituitary body, of the nervus acusticus, of the gliomas, of the blood vessels, and the meningiomas (Thomson, 316). “By 1938, Boston seemed to have outpaced the others [NY, Phila.] in neurological research. . . . The neurology leader was Stanley Cobb, and all research in the department radiated from his interest in epilepsy, which took him to studies of cerebral blood flow and metabolism. . . . he managed to keep together a team [at Boston City Hospital] that included Putnam and Merritt; Fred and Erna Gibbs, who developed the electroencephalogram; William Lennox, the dean of epilepsy research; Frank Fremont-Smith, a pioneer in characterizing the constituents of CSF; and Raymond Morrison, an early neuropathologist” (Rowland, 50).