biography
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Dandy, Walter Edward
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| lived:
| (1886–1946)
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| biography:
| Neurosurgeon, born in Sedalia, Missouri, USA. On the staff of Johns Hopkins Medical School and its hospital from his internship (1910) until his death, he started as an assistant to the great Harvey Cushing, but the two fell out. Although Cushing would go on to Boston and Harvard (1912), the two great neurosurgeons of their day never resolved their quarrel. Dandy developed a number of important diagnostic and neurosurgical techniques, including the use of ventriculography and the treatment of hydrocephaly, and pioneered in the surgical treatment of tic douloureux and Ménière's disease. He also demonstrated the significance of ruptured vertebra discs to low back pain and pioneered in spinal surgery. Through all this he found time to enjoy a weekly game of golf. |
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