Last month I took a tour of the Cushing Center/Whitney Medical Library with a group of students from the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences. Dr. Harvey Cushing taught neurology at the Yale School of Medline, from 1933-1937, after retiring from a stellar career. He’s often refereed to as the father of neuroscience. Cushing obsessively documented and kept everything; including almost 200 brains from deceased patients and photographs. Much of that is all on display and open to the public. For more info visit:http://library.medicine.yale.edu/cushingcenter
I think I liked the photos of the patients more than seeing the brains. I think that’s because I’m a photographer. By coincidence and within an hour of this tour, I was at my friend Sara’s house and she offered me some pickled cauliflower from a big glass jar in her refrigerator. It looked EXACTLY like the brains! I had to pass on that….
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| Standing in the seal is believed to be good luck for med and pre-med students |
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| Pavlov’s Steak |
