The Cushing-Dandy Conflict—The Dandy Family Perception of the Discord

The rivalry between Harvey Cushing and Walter Dandy has long fascinated neurosurgeons. Once a mentor to Dandy, Cushing saw his pupil's cunning prowess in the laboratory and unique surgical skill rival his own, and he took years to embrace some of Dandy's innovations, the most well-known of which was the technique of ventriculography. In this report, Dandy's great grandson draws on his family archives and personal letters of Dandy to lineate the evolution of the Dandy-Cushing relationship.