1939

Cushing’s death, even as he was working on his bibliography of Vesalius. Neurologist/Neurosurgeon Tracy Putnam arrives at NY Neurological Institute (Rowland, 57), pushed out by Presbyterian Hospital president Charles Cooper, an anti-Semite, who persuaded the hospital’s Medical Board to eliminate Putnam’s position of Director of Neurological Institute in 1947 though he retained his tenure professorship of neurosurgery until leaving for California (Rowland, 71-73).