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James Addison Halstead was a physician who also conducted research into nutrition. He married Anna, only daughter of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1952. She died in 1975. He graduated from Harvard University in 1926, and Harvard Medical School in 1930.
Mar 6, 1984 · Dr. James A. Halsted, a physician who conducted important nutritional research, died of leukemia Friday at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He was 78 years old and lived in...
William Stewart Halsted was a pioneer of surgery in the USA and made many wide-ranging contributions, including the surgical treatment of breast cancer. He changed the training of surgeons from a disorganised apprenticeship to the residency training programmes used today.
- Michael P Osborne
- 2007
After graduating from medical school, Halsted went to Europe from 1878 to 1880 to study both basic sciences, primarily anatomy, and surgery. As the son of a well-to-do businessman in New York, he had the means to study with at least 19 different European medical/surgical scholars.
Mar 1, 2007 · William Stewart Halsted was a pioneer of surgery in the USA and made many wide-ranging contributions, including the surgical treatment of breast cancer. He changed the training of surgeons from a disorganised apprenticeship to the residency training programmes used today.
- Michael P Osborne
- 2007
Nov 25, 2011 · Dr Halsted and his aide Dr Hall discovered the technique for blocking the inferior alveolar nerve and the antero-superior dental nerve using cocaine as an anaesthetic.
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Eccentric in his personal habits, Halsted was an outstanding surgeon, known for his long, careful, and innovative operations. He was especially at pains to control bleeding in surgery.