Yale Goes to War: Profiles in medicine

This video highlights contributions to the war effort by three members of the Yale medical community: pioneering neurosurgeon Dr. Harvey Cushing, an 1891 graduate of Yale College, whose experiences in a U.S. base hospital in France allowed him to advance treatment of brain injury and develop insights into the central nervous system at a rapid rate; Annie Goodrich, founding dean of the Yale School of Nursing (and the university’s first female dean) who served as chief inspecting nurse of the Army Nursing Corps and devised a plan for an Army School of Nursing; and Milton Winternitz, pathologist and dean of the Yale School of Medicine 1920-1935, who helped devise treatments for patients exposed to chemical weapons and later discovered that the pathology of influenza pneumonia, which killed million worldwide during a 1918 pandemic, was similar to the pathologies caused by certain chemical weapons.