Publicatiedatum: maart 2023

Each year on April 8, a growing community of patients reflect on their experience with a rare disease named after Dr. Harvey Cushing’s discovery of “polyglandular syndrome” in 1912. Dr. Cushing was a pioneering American Neurosurgeon born on April 8, 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr. Harvey Cushing had many impressive accomplishments in addition to his official discovery and first diagnosis of “polyglandular syndrome”, which was later renamed Cushing’s syndrome. He was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and introduced North America to the wall-mounted blood pressure monitor after learning about this non-invasive technique from an Italian colleague while traveling abroad in the late 1800s. He is credited with making blood pressure an official vital measurement with the introduction of this machine that measured systolic pressure. Another physician discovered a way to measure diastolic pressure in 1905 and expanded the machine to become the precursor to that in which we have all found ourselves dozens (or hundreds) of times in our lives.

Source: Cushing’s Support and Research Foundation