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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 ...
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. Halsted's research developed a better understanding of surgically amenable disease and a multitude of new techniques and ...
- Michael P Osborne
- 2007
Continued success resulted in Osler and William Welch (1850–1934) recommending Halsted to be surgeon-in-chief in 1890 and Hopkins’ first professor of surgery in 1892. 6, 7 Though everyone believed that Halsted’s addiction was cured at the time of these appointments, it later became clear that wasn’t the case and that he was able to hide his addiction under a veil of eccentricity and a ...
- James R. Wright, Norman S. Schachar
- 10.1503/cjs.003319
- 2020
- Can J Surg. 2020 Feb; 63(1): E13-E18.
father of surgery on the alimentary tract.1 Only weeks after presenting his work in Boston 1887, Halsted was back in Butler Hospital, again for a months-long hospitalization. Upon his release in 1888 he returned to Welch’s laboratory and began to see patients.1 When the new Johns Hopkins Hospital opened in 1889 Halsted received the tentative
Nov 16, 2020 · Figure 1. Top: 1903-1904 – Dr. William Halsted performing a surgical procedure as physicians/staff observe in what was called an Operating ‘Theater’ (OT). Figure 2. Bottom: 1904 – Dr. Halsted performing the ‘all-star operation’ in the surgical amphitheater with his residents (J.T. Finney, Harvey Cushing, Joseph Bloodgood, and Hugh ...
elsewhere, but fully developed within the Halsted School at Hopkins,11,12 where Halsted’s frailty further reinforced his transition to this new operative style. Daniel B. Nunn, while Historian of The Halsted Soci-ety, noted that “Halsted is properly credited as the ‘father of a school of safety in surgery,’ a school in
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Feb 22, 2010 · When Johns Hopkins Hospital opened its Department of Surgery in 1889, Halsted was named its first supervisor. Dr. Gerald Imber practices plastic surgery at a private clinic in Manhattan. He is ...
