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When Halsted returned to land, his family and Welch demanded that he seek treatment at Butler, a well-regarded mental hospital. Welch also dangled encouraging bait for his friend's recovery: the opportunity to move to Baltimore to help form a new hospital and the nation's first research university.
Nov 16, 2020 · Dr. Halsted was a strong proponent of experimental laboratory where ‘surgical techniques were learned, and lifesaving advances born’ and discovered radical mastectomy for breast cancer as well as viable repair for inguinal hernia.
Mar 9, 2010 · One (dark and stormy?) night in 1882, a critically ill 70 year old woman was at the verge of death at her daughter’s home, suffering from fever, crippling pain, nausea, and an inflamed abdominal mass. At 2 AM, a courageous surgeon put her on the kitchen table and performed the first known operation to remove gallstones.
It is well known that William Stewart Halsted (1852–1922) suffered addiction to cocaine. This biography emphasizes that the tragedy occurred early in his career during seminal work for nerve blocking in clinical surgery and dentistry.
- Theodore A. Alston
- 2011
The list goes on: Halsted introduced local and regional anaesthesia, completed crucial work in vascular surgery, and composed a seminal tract on thyroid goitre. He was one of the four founding physicians of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA.
- Talha Khan Burki
- 2018
Over a 40-year career, beginning in New York and continuing at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, he endured a terrible struggle resulting from an accidental addiction, acquired in the course of his research.
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William Stewart Halsted, M.D. (September 23, 1852 – September 7, 1922) was an American surgeon who emphasized strict aseptic technique during surgical procedures, was an early champion of newly discovered anesthetics, and introduced several new operations, including the radical mastectomy for breast cancer. Along with William Osler (Professor ...
