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  1. Halsted did not have a private office in town, but would see his patients at the hospital or examine them in their homes. Out-of-town patients were examined pre and postoperatively in their hotel rooms.

    • J Scott Rankin
    • 10.1097/01.sla.0000201546.94163.00
    • 2006
    • Ann Surg. 2006 Mar; 243(3): 418-425.
  2. 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 ...

  3. His private class went to his office 2 nights a week at 9 o’clock where they were quizzed until 11 or 12 o’clock. Lived with an intern Thomas McBride on East 25th Street (between Madison and 4th Ave).

  4. With his teaching and practice now failing, although still well off financially, what was he to do about his medical career? Welch, now in 1886 professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins, asked Halsted to join him in Baltimore. For a year or 2, Halsted worked in the surgical laboratory doing only surgical research but saw no patients.

  5. Jul 23, 2017 · William Stewart Halsted was a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, during the late 1800s and early 1900s. In 1894 Halsted described his procedure for treating breast cancer by removing the breast tissue, chest muscles, and lymph nodes in the armpit, a procedure he named radical mastectomy, and that became the standard of ...

  6. At the end of Halsteds confinement at Butler Hospital in late 1886, Welch invited his friend to join him in Baltimore.1. Halsted began work in Welch’s lab, where he determined the submucosa as the crucial strength layer capable of holding suture in the intestine.

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  8. William H. Welch invited Halsted to come to Baltimore in 1886 to do research in the newly-formed pathological laboratory. Working with Franklin P. Mall, he perfected techniques for intestinal suture and wound healing in dogs.