title: Harvey Cushing as clinical investigator and laboratory worker.
abstract: This assay is not a history of the pituitary gland, or an abbreviated life of Cushing, or a comprehensive review of hypophysial endocrinology. What is attempted is a short evaluation of this medical "classic" as a contribution to the history of ideas about the function of the anterior pituitary and about clinical disorders of the gland.
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010900:Pituitary Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000378:metabolism; D012106:Research / Q000266:history; D014481:United States