Photograph inscribed: "To the Chief, From his House Staff, Dec. 17, 1943." Department of Surgery Faculty and House Staff posing on occasion of the 60th birthday of Dr. Barney Brooks, chairman of the Department of Surgery.
Cobb Pilcher, a brilliant neurosurgeon and protege of Barney Brooks, established and developed the Division of Neurologic Surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. A native of Nashville, Pilcher entered Vanderbilt University at the age of…